Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFA professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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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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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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When placed in command, take charge.
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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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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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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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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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