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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFAn awful lot has been written about my temper.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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 do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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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Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
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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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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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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 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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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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’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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