Colonel general is a senior rank of general. North Korea and Russia are two countries which have used the rank extensively throughout their histories. A rank sometimes erroneously translated as "colonel general" is also closely associated with Germany, where Generaloberst has been a rank above the full General and a rank below Generalfeldmarschall.
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Famous quotes containing the words colonel and/or general:
“I am asked if I would not be gratified if my friends would procure me promotion to a brigadier-generalship. My feeling is that I would rather be one of the good colonels than one of the poor generals. The colonel of a regiment has one of the most agreeable positions in the service, and one of the most useful. “A good colonel makes a good regiment,” is an axiom.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)