Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet. Read Summary
I don't worry about stress. I create it. Read Summary
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! Read Summary
If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
Demonstrate to the world, there is 'No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy' than a U.S. Marine. Read Summary
Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don't understand it. It's like America has lost faith in rational thought. Read Summary
No war is over until the enemy says it's over. Read Summary
To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase... Rather, it's displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen. Read Summary
Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun. Read Summary
Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules. Read Summary
By reading, you learn through others' experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
While victimhood in America is exalted, I don't think our veterans should join those ranks. Read Summary
The Marines have landed, and we now own a piece of Afghanistan. Read Summary
I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies - I was Armed with Insight. Read Summary
I'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. Read Summary
I don't write policy for my government. Read Summary