Famous quotes containing the words general, sir and/or james:
“Why not draft executive and management brains to prepare and produce the equipment the $21-a-month draftee must use and forget this dollar-a-year tommyrot? Would we send an army into the field under a dollar-a-year General who had to be home Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays?”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army.”
—Richard, Sir Hull (b. 1907)
“In art economy is always beauty.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)