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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFHow do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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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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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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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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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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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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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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When placed in command, take charge.
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