#command

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#armies #asia #blue #chest #combined

Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention. ↗

— Laura Linney

#command #compelling #people #personalities #some

Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

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I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command. ↗

— George McGovern

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Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child. ↗

— Alice Miller

#child #commandment #honor #i #i see

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good. ↗

— Bernard Law Montgomery

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Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded. ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

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Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#bit #command #dazed #feeling #first

You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves. ↗

— Bob Nelson

#command #only #people #their #themselves