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A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.
Sep 10, 2025
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
The veterans of our military services have put their lives on the line to protect the freedoms that we enjoy. They have dedicated their lives to their country and deserve to be recognized for their commitment.
We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.
The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms.
Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.
If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly.
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
In the last analysis, what the Marine Corps becomes is what we make of it during our respective watches. And that watch of each Marine is not confined to the time he spends on active duty. It last as long as he is "proud to bear the title of United States Marine."
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
In war there is no substitute for victory.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
It is God's job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
Get the hell out of my way!
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
It is not the critic who counts
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.