Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFWith 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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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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A 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.
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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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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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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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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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 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.
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