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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.

Norman Schwarzkopf

I get angry at a principle, not a person.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Angry Person Principle
As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Art Men Military
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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Army Military War
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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Afraid Courage Firefighter Job True
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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Country Destroy Intention
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Help Relationship Success
An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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Awful Temper
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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Military Motivational Peace Sports
I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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Chaotic Circumstance Pride
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Great Love People Thinking
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Character Deal Judgment Men Superior
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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Duty Rough
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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Family Father Kill Mother People Professional Soldier
How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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Accommodate Care Fight Kill War
When placed in command, take charge.
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Charge Command Leadership
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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Accomplishment Loss Mission Realization Trying

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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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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