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 SCHWARZKOPFChoose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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 believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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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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It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
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