There are many people who do not know if the U.S. Army has 60,000 men or 6 million. They do not have a clue about that.

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 am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

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.

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 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.

There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

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.

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

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

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.

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.

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.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.

Sometimes I don’t use the words ‚will‘ and ‚want‘ in the right way. The German word ‚will‘ is the English word ‚want,‘ so that’s a little bit of the problem.

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

The army teaches boys to think like men.

These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

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

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.

An army marches on its stomach.

We can’t have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That’s crazy. You can’t have more types of fake news than real news. That’s allowing public deception to go unchecked. That’s crazy.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

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

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

The other day I… uh, no, that wasn’t me.

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.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq’s future is not.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

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.

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.

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

I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.

The sergeant is the Army.

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.

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.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me ‚Trey‘ because I’m William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I’m also known.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

I’m not an expert on the arms race.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

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

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.