It is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFTrue courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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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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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To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak – you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
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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 prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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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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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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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 get angry at a principle, not a person.
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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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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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