Jim Mattis Quotes

In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.

I don't mind being a permanent nightmare for the United States.

When you go to war, it’s very important to kill the right people

Instead of stealing upon each other and taking every advantage to kill the enemy and save their own people, as we do, they [whites] march out, in open daylight, and fight, regardless of the number of warriors they may loose!

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

The war of attrition against the Zionist enemy will never cease.

You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.

It matters little who is the enemy, if we cannot beat off his attack.

A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.

Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.

Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.

A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?"

Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy.

My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed.

If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.

No," he said, voice thick and husky. His fingers dug into the chair's arms. "You'd better not get too close." I stopped, laughing softly. "You don't strike me as the assaulting type, Mortensen." "Yeah, well, there's a first time for everything.

War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

In war, where imperfect intelligence, the threat of a catastrophe, and the number of accidents are incomparably greater than any other human endeavor, the amount of missed opportunities, so to speak, is therefore bound to be greater.

As you can see, even when [Adolf] Hitler desires to speak for peace, he cannot dispense with threats. This is symptomatic.

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

I'm from the American West. We have forest fires out there. And some of the worst forest fires in our history, the most damage were caused when we pulled the fire crews off the line too early. And so we're going to have to continue to keep the pressure on the enemy - ISIS. There's no room for complacency on this.

They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission.

He knew all the answers. Everybody did. Everybody knew everything and everybody knew all the answers. It was just that the enemy seemed to know better ones.

A severe war lurks under the show of peace.