It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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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 believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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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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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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’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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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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It is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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When placed in command, take charge.
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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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