Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes

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• You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
• 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…
• I believe that forgiving them is god's function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
• Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.
• 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.…
• You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to…
• 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.
• Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
• True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
• Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
• Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
• The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
• A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
• 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…
• When placed in command, take charge.
• I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
• You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are…
• First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in…
• I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.
• What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind.

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