• The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

• If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself

•A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.

•Do more than is required of you.

•Do not fear failure.

•Do not take counsel of your fears.

•Give credit where it’s due.

•In case of doubt, attack.

•It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory.

•Make your plans to fit the circumstances.

•Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.

•Say what you mean and mean what you say.

•Take calculated risks.

•There is only one type of discipline, perfect discipline.

•There's a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and is much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates.

•You're never beaten until you admit it.

•It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance.

•God deliver us from our friends, we can handle the enemy.

•As I walk through the valley of death I fear no one, for I am the meanest mother fucker in the valley!

•A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

•All glory is fleeting.

•A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.

•Success demands a high level of logistical and organizational competence.

•Perpetual peace is a futile dream.

•It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

•The test of success is not what you do when your on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

•If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead.

•Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

•Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

• I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

• Never give in. Never give in. Never give in.

• You would rise in the world? You must work while others amuse themselves. Are you desirous of a reputation of courage? You must risk your life. Would you be strong morally or physically? You must resist tempations.

• Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American Dream

•Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

•Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

•Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

•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. The person 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 teeing free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.. (1868)

• uncommon valor was a common virtue.
(Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN, 16 March 1945.)

•I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold.

•Retreat Hell! We've just got here!
(Attributed to several World War I Marine Corps officers, Belleau Wood, June 1918

•Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there.

•Sometimes it is entirely appropriate to kill a fly with a sledge hammer.

•Why be different if you can’t be yourself?

-LessThanJake

•Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for thou art with me.

Psalm 23: 4

•God is our refuge and our strength, a very present help in trouble.

Psalm 46:1