War, Leadership, Men, Anger, Best, Courage, Good, Great, Knowledge, Peace, Positive, Respect, Strength, Truth, Veterans Day

Quote	Tags	Rank
The fun of fishing is catching 'em, not killing 'em.		101
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.	Best, Good, Great	102
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.	Men	103
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.	Leadership	104
When placed in command, take charge.	Leadership	105
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.	War	106
It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.	Men, Veterans Day	107
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.	Truth	108
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.'		109
For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.		110
I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.		111
I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign.		112
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.'		113
Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'		114
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, Positive	115
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.	War	116
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.	Courage	117
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.		118
Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.	Respect	119
I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army, and I'm very proud of that. But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional. I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.		120
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.	War	121
I've managed to convince my wife that somewhere in the Bible it says, 'Man cannot have too many shotguns and fishing poles.'		122
I'm not a type-B personality who knows I have a cancer growing inside of me and can live with the knowledge. I go into a kung-fu attack position when I go through the door of a hospital.	Knowledge	123
I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.		124
This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it.	War	125
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.	Peace, War	126
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.		201
Good generalship is the realisation that you've got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life.		202
I am not one of these guys who is just going to waste American lives by throwing people needlessly in frontal attacks up against the enemy if I can avoid doing that.		203
I can stand in a crystal stream without another human around me and cast all day long, and if I never catch a single fish, I can come home and still feel like I had a wonderful time. It's the being there that's important.		204
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.		205
An awful lot has been written about my temper.		206
I get angry at a principle, not a person.	Anger	207
War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.		208
Nobody can ever pin you down when you speculate.		209
Tanks being deployed far forward is an indication of offensive action; tanks in depth is an indication of defensive action.		210
The Patriot missile is a point defence missile. Point defence means that you put the missile at a location to defend a very specific target such as an airfield, a supply dump or a headquarters.		211
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.		212
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.		213
Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes with a two by four to get its attention.		214
To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.	Strength	215
There's no doubt in my mind that whichever commander ordered the blowing up of Kamisiyah did so in following the instructions that he had received.		216
I saw Kuwait many times before the war. I remember it as a beautiful place, full of very nice people, and it's a tragedy to see that somebody could set out to deliberately destroy a country the way the Iraqis have.		217
With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side.		218
I think any student of military strategy would tell you that in order to attack a position, you should have a ratio of approximately 3 to 1 in favor of the attacker.		219
When the Normandy Invasion was planned, a very specific strategic objective was given, and that strategic objective was the basis upon which the plan for the Normandy Invasion was derived.		220
Unfortunately, if you've ever been in southern Georgia on the beaches in a lightning storm, if you're out there, you're in great, great danger, and you can be killed very, very quickly.		221
I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.		222
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.		223
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.		224
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.		225
It's nice to feel that you have a purpose.		226
I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.		301
I can't even begin to visualize myself as a five-star general... When I think of the people who are five-star generals, I can't even see myself standing in their shadow.		302
Fish are a renewable resource, and one of the problems we've had is people feel obliged to catch the limit, then throw 'em in the garbage can.		303
When I fish, I stop thinking about anything else. But truth be told, if you want to declare victories, I can tell you the fish have won a lot more than I have. It's interesting that something with a brain the size of a fish's can outsmart us humans, who think we are el supremo.		304
I've got to tell you what, the soldier doesn't fight very hard for a leader who is going to shoot him, okay, on his own whim. That's not what military leadership is all about.	Leadership	305
War is a profane thing.		306
If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.		307
I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army and I'm very proud of that. But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional.		308
If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.		309
I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.		310
I like to say I'm not a hero.		311
Moving into an unoccupied village when there's no opposition, I don't call that a military victory.		312
I am an environmentalist, but I'm not a wacko environmentalist. I believe that mankind and nature can live side-by-side for the mutual benefit of both.		313
They say the good Lord doesn't charge you for the days you hunt and fish, and I believe that.		314
Hey, I'm not a politician. I'm a ham. I love to give speeches.		315
I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be.		316
I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.		317
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.		318
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.		319
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.		320
I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.		321
Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target.		322

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