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+Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
+Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
+In war there is no prize for the runner-up.
+Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
+The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
+They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
+There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
+The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
+Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
+In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
+It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
+Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
+Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
+All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
+I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
+Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
+Only the dead have seen the end of war.
+Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
+It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.
+A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
+He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
+You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
+If we don't end war, war will end us.
+From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
+He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
+War is as much a punishment to the punisher as it is to the sufferer.
+War would end if the dead could return.
+When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
+Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
+History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
+When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
+A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
+It is a big step to take another human life. It is not to be done lightly.
+Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
+If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
+The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
+Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
+Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
+We happy few, we band of brothers/For he today that sheds his blood with me/Shall be my brother.
+Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
+Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
+There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
+There are no atheists in foxholes, this isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.
+Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
+Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
+Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
+Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
+I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
+Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
+He conquers who endures.
+It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!
+You know the real meaning of peace only if you have been through the war.
+Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
+In war there is no substitute for victory.
+War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
+In war, truth is the first casualty.
+Incoming fire has the right of way.
+Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
+War does not determine who is right, only who is left.
+A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.
+The press is our chief ideological weapon.
+Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
+If the enemy is in range, so are you.
+Cost of a single Javelin Missile: $80,000
+Cost of a single Tomahawk Cruise Missile: $900,000
+Cost of a single F-117A Nighthawk: $122 Million
+Cost of a single F-22 Raptor: $135 Million
+Cost of a single AC-130U Gunship: $190 Million
+Cost of a single B-2 Bomber: $2.2 Billion
+So long as there are men, there will be wars.
+Aim towards the Enemy.
+I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good?
+Any military commander who is honest will admit he makes mistakes in the application of military power.
+You can make a throne of bayonets, but you cant sit on it for long.
+The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle!
+Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
+Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.
+Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
+War is delightful to those who have not yet experienced it.
+Friendly fire, isn't.
+Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.
+I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.
+All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.
+The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
+Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share.
+I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
+The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
+If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
+Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
+If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merits of our cause, we'd better reexamine our reasoning.
+The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
+If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter, and therefore, unsafe.
+Five second fuses only last three seconds.
+If your attack is going too well, you're walking into an ambush.
+No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
+When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.
+A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
+A leader leads by example, not by force.
+If you can't remember, the claymore is pointed toward you.
+There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a secondhand opinion.
+The more marines I have around, the better I like it.
+Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder.
+Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.
+Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo.
+The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
+Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
+Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just brave five minutes longer.
+In the end, it was luck. We were *this* close to nuclear war, and luck prevented it.
+Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don't have that problem.
+It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.
+We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us.
+If at first you don't succeed, call an air strike.
+Tracers work both ways.
+Teamwork is essential, it gives them other people to shoot at.
+The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
+We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry we didn't act.
+All warfare is based on deception.
+The indefinite combination of human infallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.
+In war, you win or lose, live or die and the difference is just an eyelash.
+You can't say civilization don't advance, for in every war, they kill you in a new way.
+They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.
+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.
+Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still, there are things worth fighting for.
+It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
+Let your plans be as dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
+Anyone, who truly wants to go to war, has truly never been there before!
+Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
+Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.
+My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
+Cluster bombing from B-52s are very, very, accurate. The bombs are guaranteed to always hit the ground.
+If a man has done his best, what else is there?
+The bursting radius of a hand-grenade is always one foot greater than your jumping range.
+The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them.
+Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom - for himself.
+If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
+Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
+We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
+I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
+As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
+An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
+Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.
+If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
+The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.
+Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
+If you're ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag.
+Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
+A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote...
+Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
+I love America more than any other country in this world; and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
+...dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
+Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.
+If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
+Before you embark on a journey of revenge, you should first dig two graves.
+It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
+Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.
+Revenge is profitable.
+Patriotism ruins history.
+I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.
+I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
+Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
+We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.
+I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American!
+Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
+It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
+A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
+One good act of vengeance deserves another.
+You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.
+A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.
+Patriotism is an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
+Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them
+War is fear cloaked in courage.
+In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
+Don't get mad, get even.
+A man who would not risk his life for something does not deserve to live.