Category: army general
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Generals aren’t in the business of commenting on the correctness or incorrectness of the President’s decisions. Anybody who thinks he should be able to do that ought to be fired on the spot.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.
George S. Patton
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
George S. Patton
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In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Julius Caesar
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
Douglas MacArthur
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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
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If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.
George S. Patton
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To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.
Robert Baden-Powell