I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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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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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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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of 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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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When placed in command, take charge.
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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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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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