Famous quotes containing the words alexander, supreme and/or commander:
“An Austrian army, awfully arrayd,
Boldly by battery besiege Belgrade;
Cossack commanders cannonading come,
Deal devastations dire destructive doom;”
—Alaric Alexander Watts (17971864)
“It was the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.”
—Leon Trotsky (18791940)
“Frenchmen, we do not accept your surrender. You surrender only to the enemy. If youre Vichy, fight us. If youre Frenchmen, join us.”
—Samuel Fuller, U.S. screenwriter. American commander (uncredited)