Top Command Quotes
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
Napoleon Bonaparte
With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
Orville Wright
Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him.
Mark Shields
The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
Roger Babson
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley
Michel de Montaigne 
Solon 
Sophocles 
Donald Rumsfeld 
Robert Grosseteste 
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And at that point, I think we all realized it was something tremendously tragic, probably a terrorist attack, and the next step was to go down to our command center and get things going.
Robert Mueller 
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Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.
Neil Armstrong
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What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
Arthur Erickson
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
H. G. Wells
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
40% of people like this quote
When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.
William Westmoreland
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