A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFWhen placed in command, take charge.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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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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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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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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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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