I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFAny soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak – you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
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From 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.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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 hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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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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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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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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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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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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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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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