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

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

I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

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.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Most people know nobody in the military.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

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.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

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

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

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

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

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

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.

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

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.

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

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

I carry the flag of Ireland all the time. I want to represent my country.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that’s always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

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.

‚My country, right or wrong‘ is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ‚My mother, drunk or sober.‘

For the mission’s sake, for our country’s sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division’s colors in past battles – carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

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

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

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

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

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I’m not based in Monaco… I think my country helped me.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

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

Service of any type requires preparation.