Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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It is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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With a chemical alarm, you’re going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side
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Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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I don’t consider myself dovish and I certainly don’t consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.
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A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that’s not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn’t mean we’re not going to fight them.
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