I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFFrom 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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFHow do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFWhen placed in command, take charge.
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFAs 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 SCHWARZKOPFYou learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI 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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI 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.
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI 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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFTrue courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFChoose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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