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" I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

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" 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. "

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" Good generalship is the realisation that you've got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life. "

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" Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.' "

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" I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war. "

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" It's nice to feel that you have a purpose. "

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" 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. "

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" 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.' "

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" 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. "

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

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" They say the good Lord doesn't charge you for the days you hunt and fish, and I believe that. "

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" The fun of fishing is catching 'em, not killing 'em. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be. "

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" Tanks being deployed far forward is an indication of offensive action; tanks in depth is an indication of defensive action. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I like to say I'm not a hero. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war. "

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" 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. "

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