Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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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 believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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 do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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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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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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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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