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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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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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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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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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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It’s the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody’s got to do it. And if you don’t, who will?
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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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