United States
In the United States, as commander of an army the equivalent rank was general (four-star general, grade O-10).
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“There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration.... The United States does not concede that those countries are under the domination of the Soviet Union.”
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“The United States never lost a war or won a conference.”
—Will Rogers (1879–1935)
“The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.”
—Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)
“The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)