Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.

No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.

For the mission's sake, for our country's sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division's colors in past battles - carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.

Demonstrate to the world, there is 'No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy' than a U.S. Marine.

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.

I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

So long as our Corps fields such Marines, America has nothing to fear from tyrants, be they Fascists, Communists or Tyrants with Medieval Ideology. For we serve in a Corps with no institutional confusion about our purpose: To fight! To fight well!

No war is over until the enemy says it's over.

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It's really great.

I don't worry about stress. I create it.

There is no God-given right to victory on the battlefield. You win that through the skill and the devotion, the valor and the ferocity of your troops.

Marines don't know how to spell the word 'defeat'.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase... Rather, it's displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

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across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

The most important 6 inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.

Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.