The Man Who Could Be King Quotes

“It is often written that, during his presidency, the General was not a politician. Of course, he was a great politician in large part because he was not perceived as a politician. It”
― John Ripin Miller, The Man Who Could Be King

“It was just expected that officers should finance their service, including food and clothing.”
― John Ripin Miller, The Man Who Could Be King

“Shakespeare’s Henry V when the king rallies his outnumbered army before the 1415 Battle of Agincourt: From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered,— We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;”
― John Ripin Miller, The Man Who Could Be King

“This was the eighth year of a war we had expected to end in a year,”
― John Ripin Miller, The Man Who Could Be King

“Rule 82: “Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise.”
― John Ripin Miller, The Man Who Could Be King

“what an insatiable desire the General had for approbation, and the fame and applause that went with it.”
― John Ripin Miller, The Man Who Could Be King

“Then we had to write copies. Everything the General did was with an eye on history.”
― John Ripin Miller, The Man Who Could Be King

“My great-grandchildren tell me the War for Independence ended with the surrender at Yorktown in 1781. No one teaches them that the Revolutionary War went on for almost two more years after Yorktown, albeit with very limited fighting, until a peace treaty was signed.”
― John Ripin Miller, The Man Who Could Be King

“all the General sought was the praise of his countrymen”
― John Ripin Miller, The Man Who Could Be King

“The General not only exercised power but turned away from power.”
― John Ripin Miller, The Man Who Could Be King

“he was a great politician in large part because he was not perceived as a politician.”
― John Ripin Miller, The Man Who Could Be King

“it doesn’t matter why one does the right thing—as the General invariably did—if the right thing is done.”
― John Ripin Miller, The Man Who Could Be King

“A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.”
― John Ripin Miller, The Man Who Could Be King

“Show not yourself glad at the misfortune of another, though he were your enemy.”
― John Ripin Miller, The Man Who Could Be King

“when you defend everything, you defend nothing,”
― John Ripin Miller, The Man Who Could Be King

“does it really make a difference if one acts virtuously, cultivates virtuousness, or is really virtuous?”
― John Ripin Miller, The Man Who Could Be King

“it is easy to cast as a flaw in others a trait you yourself possess.”
― John Ripin Miller, The Man Who Could Be King

“Rule 89 in his Rules of Civility: “Speak not evil of those who are absent for it is unjust.”
― John Ripin Miller, The Man Who Could Be King

“For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother”
― John Ripin Miller, The Man Who Could Be King

“after all, it is easy to cast as a flaw in others a trait you yourself possess.”
― John Ripin Miller, The Man Who Could Be King

“That brings me back to Monday, March 10, 1783, in Newburgh, New York, and the extraordinary events that followed over the next several days.”
― John Ripin Miller, The Man Who Could Be King

“A common man can be a hero and a coward,” he was fond of saying. “Discipline and leadership will go a long ways toward determining which it is.” Such”
― John Ripin Miller, The Man Who Could Be King

“I’ll never forget the dejected looks of the British and Hessians as they surrendered while the British band, unaware of the irony, played “The World Turned Upside Down.” That”
― John Ripin Miller, The Man Who Could Be King

“Rules of Civility, Philip Miller’s The Gardeners Dictionary, Arthur Young’s A Course of Experimental Agriculture, and Humphrey Bland’s Treatise of Military Discipline.”
― John Ripin Miller, The Man Who Could Be King

“It will not be believed that such a force as Great Britain has employed in this country could be baffled in their plan of subjugating it, by numbers infinitely less, composed of men oftentimes half starved, always in rags, often without pay, and experiencing, at times, every species of distress that human nature is capable of undergoing. Has”
― John Ripin Miller, The Man Who Could Be King