It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI 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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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.
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Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
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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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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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