An awful lot has been written about my temper.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFA 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.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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 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 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 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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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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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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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate 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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