Jim Mattis Quotes

There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.

Terrorism is the enemy of all free people…

War and democracy have never been happy bedfellows…. War has always threatened democracy.

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

It's an odd feeling, knowing someone is trying to kill you. On the front line, you learn quickly that if you're in the path of a bullet, you will get hit.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

Freedom is won by violence, but needs mutual tolerance to survive.

I have fought for many years. I have killed many men. I have never seen a foreigner die.

Liberty has its roots in blood.

The altar of liberty totters when it is cemented only with blood

O’ Yes. War is better than slavery.

You can’t kill your own people and survive very long.

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue and thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything, I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The Ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more disputes in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

The terrorists can kill the innocent, but they cannot stop the advance of freedom.

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved our soldiers... every man that wanted to burn the negro, every one that wanted to scatter yellow fever in the North, every man that opposed human liberty, that regarded the auction-block as an altar and the howling of the bloodhound as the music of the Union, every man who wept over the corpse of slavery, that thought lashes on the naked back were a legal tender for labour performed, every one willing to rob a mother of her child - every solitary one was a Democrat.

A lot of God-loving people think that killing people who don't agree with them is OK.