The sergeant is the Army.

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

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

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

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

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.

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

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

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

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

People have asked me, ‚What would you have done if you hadn’t gone into the Army?‘ I’d say I’d probably be a bus driver. I don’t know.

I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.

In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

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.

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

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.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

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

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

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

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.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

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.

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.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

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.

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

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.

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

Apart from the fact that any hardy exercise conduces much to the training and formation of a soldier, pig-sticking tends to give a man what is called a ‚stalker’s eye,‘ but which, par excellence, is the soldier’s eye.

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.

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.

I’m not an expert on the arms race.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

An army marches on its stomach.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

I’m committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.

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

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

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

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.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

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

Missionaries serve to make life better for God’s children.

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

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

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.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

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

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.

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?