Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI 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.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.
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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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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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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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’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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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