I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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 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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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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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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’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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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 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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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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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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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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