Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes

• 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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• I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.

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• I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.

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• 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 the world knows it.

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• I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.

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• I get angry at a principle, not a person.

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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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• The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

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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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• Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

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• You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

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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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• 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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• He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he’s a great military man.

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• War is a profane thing.

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• When placed in command – take charge.

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• 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 do it.

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• 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.

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Norman Schwarzkopf (39)

Birth:	22nd August, 1934
Death:	27th December, 2012
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Soldier, Writer, Army Officer

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