The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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.
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
When placed in command, take charge.
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.
The fun of fishing is catching 'em, not killing 'em.
I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it... Then you understand the horror of war.
I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
What people don't understand is this is something that we only have in America. There is no other country in the world where the ordinary citizen can go out and enjoy hunting and fishing. There's no other nation in the world where that happens. And it's very much a part of our heritage.
As young West Point cadets, our motto was 'duty, honor, country.' But it was in the field, from the rice paddies of Southeast Asia to the sands of the Middle East, that I learned that motto's fullest meaning. There I saw gallant young Americans of every race, creed and background fight, and sometimes die, for 'duty, honor, and their country.'
A great deal of the capability of an army is its dedication to its cause and its will to fight. You can have the best equipment in the world, you can have the largest numbers in the world, but, if you're not dedicated to your cause, if you don't have the will to fight, then, you are not going to have a very good army.
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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.
