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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

Norman Schwarzkopf

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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Great Love People Thinking
Good generalship is a realization that you’ve got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.
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Accomplishment Loss Mission Realization Trying
From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.
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Command Commitment Country Love Retirement Soldier Time
I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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Absolute Hate War
To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak – you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
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Giving Leadership People
I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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Leadership Lucky Successful War
Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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Secret Success Sweat Sweet
If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.
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Country Destroy Intention
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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Enemy Judging Looks
Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
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Look Thinking Want
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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God Job War
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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Family Father Kill Mother People Professional Soldier
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Character Failure Leadership
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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Afraid Courage Firefighter Job True
Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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Character Leadership Strategy
I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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Arrangement Believe Function Job Military

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