I was a Marine for 41 years, and it wasn’t long enough. We enjoy putting on that uniform.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

The sergeant is the Army.

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

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.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

I’m not an expert on the arms race.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for – presidential medal of honor.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

The United States is a violent military state. It’s been involved in military action all over the place.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or giving up simply as forms of cowardice.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

The Corps is in good hands, and it’s been a privilege to serve with the Leathernecks. Now it’s time to go.

We’re running the company to serve more people.