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 believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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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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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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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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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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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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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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When placed in command, take charge.
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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