High Command Quotes

Incompetency, criminal negligence, and almost treasonable administration of national defense.

MPs are basically bonded labourers of their parties. And it is the party high command of each party, which takes decisions.

According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.

The Republican high command thinks that Henry Wallace will take so many votes away from the Democrats, and so little from the Republicans, that it does not matter what the Republican Party does. Victory will be theirs, they assure themselves. When any political party gets this feeling, it is time for that party to beware.

There were many military officers more senior to George C. Marshall when Franklin Delano Roosevelt selected him as the Chief of Staff for WWII.

What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?

This democracy is not by the people, of the people, for the people. This democracy is about by the party high command, of the party high command, and for the party high command.

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.

Jimmy Gault, now English aide to General Eisenhower, invited me to dine last night at the Muhammad Ali Club to meet the General and his staff. Being the only outside guest I was placed at dinner next to the General. There were about sixteen people there – all Americans except for Jimmy, Kay Somersby, the General’s very nice English secretary [and mistress] who sat on his right, and myself.

There are plenty of people in the in the military and high ranking generals that do not feel that they have been optimized or listened to .