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.
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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When placed in command, take charge.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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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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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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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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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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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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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You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
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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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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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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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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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 was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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