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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFGood 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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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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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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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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