The Marines have landed, and we now own a piece of Afghanistan.

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.

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.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

The high probability is if American forces withdraw from Afghanistan and if no alternative international arrangement is made that then the historic contests between the regions and the sects will reappear, the Taliban will re-emerge, and a very complicated and maybe chaotic situation will develop.

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

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it’s mine. I run it. I have employees.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

I’m a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I’m doing. I don’t want to work for other people forever.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

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.

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

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

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is – I don’t even want to say that it’s mine, because it’s yours.

I don’t think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

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

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.

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.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

The sergeant is the Army.

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

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?

Property is organized robbery.

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

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.

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

Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.

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

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.

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

When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that was a hideous invasion.

Waking up early was the first example I noticed in the SEAL Teams in which discipline was really the difference between being good and being exceptional.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

An army marches on its stomach.

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.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

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

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

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.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

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.

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

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.