How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.
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When placed in command, take charge.
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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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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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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 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 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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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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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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