Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes

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

War, Hunting, France

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 Schwarzkopf

Men, Battle, Hero

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.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Positive, Leadership, Negative

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Courage, True, Job

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Leadership, Character, Strategy

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

Peace, War, Less

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Fighting, Soldier, Worth

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.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Great, Military, Nor

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.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Great, Soldier, Far

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
Norman Schwarzkopf

War, Soldier, Means

When placed in command, take charge.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Command, Charge, Placed

War is a profane thing.
Norman Schwarzkopf

I get angry at a principle, not a person.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Angry, Person, Principle

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 facing today.'
Norman Schwarzkopf

Today, Help, Done

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.
Norman Schwarzkopf

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
Norman Schwarzkopf

War, Hate, Absolutely

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

I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.
Norman Schwarzkopf

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.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Mind, Question, Iraq

An awful lot has been written about my temper.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Temper, Written, Awful

But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of the service, anyone I've fired from a job.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Job, Career, Tell

Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Life, Good, Human

Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Education, Government, Alone

Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.
Norman Schwarzkopf

United, Taken, Nations

I like to say I'm not a hero.
Norman Schwarzkopf

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: August 22, 1934

Died: December 27, 2012

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