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 SCHWARZKOPFWhen placed in command, take charge.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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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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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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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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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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.
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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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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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