An awful lot has been written about my temper.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFIt is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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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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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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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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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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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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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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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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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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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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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