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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Norman Schwarzkopf

How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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Accommodate Care Fight Kill War
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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Leadership Want
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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God Job War
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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Country Destroy Intention
Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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Character Leadership Strategy
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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Family Father Kill Mother People Professional Soldier
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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Army Military War
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Help Relationship Success
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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Command Commitment Country Love Retirement Soldier Time
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Character Failure Leadership
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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Military Motivational Peace Sports
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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Advice Enemy God Love
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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Fight Soldier Veterans Day
I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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Angry Person Principle
I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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Chaotic Circumstance Pride
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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Battle Courage Hero Veterans Day

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

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