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Former United States Secretary Of Defense Inspirational Quotes (64)

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General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!
Robert McNamara
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We did it with passion we didn't do it like everyone else. Teams nowadays are still trying to duplicate that, but no one has yet. We shuffled down and we did it. We did it in an unique fashion.
William Perry
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We did it with passion we didn't do it like everyone else. Teams nowadays are still trying to duplicate that, but no one has yet. We shuffled down and we did it. We did it in an unique fashion.
William Perry
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It was a perfectly beautiful night, as fall nights are in Washington. I walked out of the president's Oval Office, and as I walked out, I thought I might never live to see another Saturday night.
Robert McNamara
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Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.
George C. Marshall
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The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.
Robert McNamara
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Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.
James Forrestal
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What other people do shouldn't affect you - we do things because of the kind of person we each want to be
George C. Marshall
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Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back.
Les Aspin
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We see what we want to believe.
Robert McNamara
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We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of Freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other.
George C. Marshall
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Don't fight the problem, decide it.
George C. Marshall
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I said bluntly that if the president were to follow Mr. Clifford's advice and if in the elections I were to vote, I would vote against the president.
George C. Marshall
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Discussions without end have been devoted to the subject of peace, and the efforts to obtain a general and lasting peace have been frequent through many years of world history.
George C. Marshall
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The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights one of the most intense things I've been a part of.
William Perry
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The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights one of the most intense things I've been a part of.
William Perry
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Belief and seeing are both often wrong.
Robert McNamara
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The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate.
George C. Marshall
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A political problem thought of in military terms eventually becomes a military problem.
George C. Marshall
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What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?
Robert McNamara
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It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music.
George C. Marshall
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The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything. Unless the soldier's soul sustains him he cannot be relied on and will fail himself and his commander and his country in the end.
George C. Marshall
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Oil production should peak out around the world in the early 1990s...That means in five years' time we may have chewed up most of the possibility of further expansion of oil production.
James R. Schlesinger
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The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.
Robert McNamara
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