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

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

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

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

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.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

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

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

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

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it’s my entity; it’s my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

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

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

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

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.

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

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

Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.

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.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

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

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee – working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

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.

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.

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

Every summer’s mine.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

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.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

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.

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.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

I own a ’66 Jaguar. That’s the guitar I polish, and baby – I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

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.

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

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

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

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 want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

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.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

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.

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

An army marches on its stomach.