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.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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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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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’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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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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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 believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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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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