I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

The U.S. has strategic and economic interests in Southeast Asia that must be secured. Holding Indochina is essential to securing these interests. Therefore, we must hold Indochina.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq’s future is not.

In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

I have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers‘ problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

I used to bodyguard for some celebrities and other people, and when I wasn’t doing that, I used to work at a disco as a doorman or a bouncer.

There are many people who do not know if the U.S. Army has 60,000 men or 6 million. They do not have a clue about that.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism – mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the insurgents, but they couldn’t deal with half a million people demonstrating in the streets.

I remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT guys on top of the roof of the school. And Malia was like, ‚Dad, really? Really? Do they really have to be up there?‘ And it’s like, yeah, honey, they do.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

I’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.