Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.
Jim MattisThese people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
Christopher ColumbusPatriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Bertrand RussellWhen 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.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThere 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.
Jim MattisAmerica has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.
Henry KissingerWar is the continuation of politics by other means.
Carl von ClausewitzA private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
Abraham LincolnPakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.
Noam ChomskyWhen 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.
Madeleine AlbrightSEALs 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.
Jocko WillinkThe sergeant is the Army.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI’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.
Jim MattisI am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.
Barack ObamaTonight, 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.
Barack ObamaWe did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
Thomas JeffersonNothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
George WashingtonNo 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.
Barack ObamaWhen 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.
Michelle ObamaSome of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.
Colin PowellWaking 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.
Jocko WillinkThe 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.
Harry S. TrumanThe 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.
Noam ChomskySo 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.
Barack ObamaThe British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
George Bernard ShawNeither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
Alexander Graham BellThe 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.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThe United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.
Fidel CastroPeople sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George OrwellWe 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.
Michelle ObamaThe military can buy our diplomats some time.
Jim MattisMilitary intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Groucho MarxWe 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.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI’m not an expert on the arms race.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamYou 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.
George Bernard ShawThe army teaches boys to think like men.
Elvis PresleyWe 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.
Jim MattisA soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon BonaparteMy 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.
Jimmy CarterThe United States is a violent military state. It’s been involved in military action all over the place.
Noam ChomskyPolicy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.
Jim MattisI 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.
Jocko WillinkLet 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.
Joe BidenThere 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.
Jim MattisWar – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
George WashingtonWherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.
Jim MattisI think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
Thomas JeffersonThe power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
Winston ChurchillThe 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.
Colin PowellI 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.
Barack ObamaGulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.
George H. W. BushI would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.
Jim MattisI 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.
Jim MattisThe army is the true nobility of our country.
Napoleon BonaparteI can make more generals, but horses cost money.
Abraham LincolnIn 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.
Jim MattisOur combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq’s future is not.
Barack ObamaI was a Marine for 41 years, and it wasn’t long enough. We enjoy putting on that uniform.
Jim MattisSoldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
Napoleon BonaparteI have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
Douglas MacArthur