Jim Mattis Quotes

The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier. They get up every morning, they want to dig a hole, and they want to kill something.

Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.

Soldiers, I intend to stay here, not only as long as a man remains, but as long as a piece of a man is left.

It is a proud tradition and fighting trait of our army and people to rise up like mountains and go through fire and water to unfailingly carry through the party's orders and instructions.

How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel.

Colonel, I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.

I will fight for America until the day I drop.

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.

Look, many of us here are regular marines... I will die as a marine because that is my dream.

I can't imagine a more loyal employee to have than somebody who's laid their life on the line for their country.

Where could death have found him but at the post of duty.

The Old Guard dies and never surrenders. La Vieille Garde meurt et ne se rend pas.

I intend to remain in this divine land and fight to the death.

In patriotism, loyalty, and combat, there are no moderates.

I'd go to war for John Cena.

These guys that were standing up to fight, for the most part, had pride in their country, and they wanted to do the best, and they wanted to go out and fight, and I was as close to these Afghans as I was to the Marines.

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!

The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.

When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.

Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice.

If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

A true woman always loves a real soldier.

If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.