An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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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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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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 get angry at a principle, not a person.
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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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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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