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.
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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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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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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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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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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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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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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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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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 get angry at a principle, not a person.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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