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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI 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 was lucky enough to lead a very successful 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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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.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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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You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
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