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
William Bligh 
Horatio Nelson 
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 
William Hazlitt 
Walt Whitman 
Francois Rabelais 
Oscar Hammerstein II 
Patrick Stewart All Command Quotes
I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. I mainly wanted them know there was another hijacked plane out there.
Ted Olson 
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We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.
Roger Mudd
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The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined my brigade to take command at the end of June.
Janis Karpinski
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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
Edward Gibbon
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It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.
Francis Maude
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Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
Margaret J. Wheatley
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States are looking for low-cost solutions that will enable better communication, while avoiding the danger in which the chain of command breaks down in emergencies. We do not want everyone talking to everyone else all the time.
John Shimkus
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