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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFLeadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in 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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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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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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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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 was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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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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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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I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.
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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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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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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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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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
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