Category: army general
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Submit to Islam and be safe. Or agree to the payment of the Jizya (tax), and you and your people will be under our protection, else you will have only yourself to blame for the consequences, for I bring the men who desire death as ardently as you desire life.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
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When I am in the battlefield, I love it more then my wedding night with the most beautiful of women
Khalid ibn al-Walid
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When placed in command, take charge.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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War is hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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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
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I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.
Robert E. Lee
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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
George S. Patton
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The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.
Robert Baden-Powell
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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