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“In Iraq and Syria, American leadership - including our military power - is stopping ISIL's advance, instead of getting dragged into another ground war in the Middle East, we are leading a broad coalition, including Arab nations, to degrade and ultimately destroy this terrorist group.”

“The authorization I propose would provide the flexibility to conduct ground combat operations in other more limited circumstances, such as rescue operations involving U.S. or coalition personnel or the use of special operations forces to take military action against ISIL leadership, it would also authorize the use of U.S. forces in situations where ground combat operations are not expected or intended, such as intelligence collection and sharing, missions to enable kinetic strikes or the provision of operational planning and other forms of advice and assistance to partner forces.”

“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.”

“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.”

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.”

“The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.”

“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.”