Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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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 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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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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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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