James Mattis Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• You are part of the world's most feared and trusted force. Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

  James Mattis

  Military, Marine Corps, Enemy

  "Eve of Battle Speech". James Mattis' words in a message to the 1st Marine Division, The Weekly Standard, March 1, 2003.

• Demonstrate to the world there is "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" than a U.S. Marine.

  James Mattis

  Marine, Enemy, Mad Dogs

  James Mattis' words in a message to the 1st Marine Division on the eve of the Iraq War (March 2003), as quoted in "Eve of Battle Speech" in The Weekly Standard, March 1, 2003; also quoted in Oliver North "War Stories: Operation Iraqi Freedom" (p. 53), 2003.

• We've backed off in good faith to try and give you a chance to straighten this problem out. But I am going to beg with you for a minute. I'm going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.

  James Mattis

  Faith, Military, Patriotic

  "19 Unforgettable Quotes From Retiring General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis" by Geoffrey Ingersoll and Paul Szoldra, www.businessinsider.com. January 23, 2013.

• If in order to kill the enemy you have to kill an innocent, don't take the shot. Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

  James Mattis

  Order, Enemy, Innocent

• There are some people who think you have to hate them in order to shoot them. I don't think you do. It's just business.

  James Mattis

  Hate, Thinking, Order

• The most important six inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

  James Mattis

  Enemy, Important, Ears

• No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.

  James Mattis

  War, Thinking, Enemy

• In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are, if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete. We have got to have officers who can create harmony across all those lines.

  James Mattis

  Military, Home, Enemy

  James Mattis' speech at the US Joint Forces Command Conference, May 2010.

• Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they're so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.

  James Mattis

  Sick, Enemy, Democracy

• You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it's going to be bad.

  James Mattis

  Dream, People, Enemy

• I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

  James Mattis

  Sleep, Night, Enemy

• Fight with a happy heart and strong spirit.

  James Mattis

  Heart, Fighting, Enemy

  "Battlefield speeches and PETA". James Mattis' message to the 1st Marine Division on the eve of the Iraq War, www.weeklystandard.com. April 7, 2003.

• PowerPoint makes us stupid.

  James Mattis

  Stupid, Enemy, Powerpoint

  "We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint" by Elisabeth Bumiller, www.nytimes.com. April 26, 2010.

• You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them. Actually, it’s a lot of fun to fight. You know, it’s a hell of a hoot. It’s fun to shoot some people. I’ll be right up front with you — I like brawling.

  James Mattis

  Fun, Military, Marine

  "Everything You Need to Know About Gen. James Mattis" by Luis Martinez, abcnews.go.com. December 1, 2016.

• The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event. That said, there are some *******s in the world that just need to be shot. There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

  James Mattis

  Blow, Discipline, Enemy

  “Fiasco”, armedforcesjournal.com. August 1, 2006.

• A country that armed Stalin to defeat Hitler can certainly work alongside enemies of al-Qaida to defeat al-Qaida.

  James Mattis

  Country, Enemy, Als

  "Gen. Mattis on the Marines in Iraq Excerpts from interview with Camp Pendleton's commanding general". Interview with Denis Devine, Mark Walker, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 24, 2007.

• An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy.

  James Mattis

  Military, Marine, Accomplishment

• For the mission's sake, our country's sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division's colors in the past battles - who fought for life and never lost their nerve - carry out your mission and keep your honor clean. Demonstrate to the world there is "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" than a U.S. Marine.

  James Mattis

  Life, Country, Military

  "Eve of Battle Speech". "The Weekly Standard" Magazine, March 1, 2003.

• Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.

  James Mattis

  Long, People, Enemy

  "Key commanders have their say on Afghanistan" by Walter Pincus, www.washingtonpost.com. March 7, 2012.

• When you're in operations, the best thing you can do at the top level is get the strategy right. You have to get the big ideas right, you have to determine what is the policy, what is the level of effort you're willing to commit to it? And then you delegate to those who have to execute that strategy to the appropriate level. What's the appropriate level? It's the level where people are trained and equipped to take decisions so we move swiftly against the enemy.

  James Mattis

  Moving, People, Effort

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• 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.

  James Mattis

  Enemy, Complacency, Worst

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• Once ISIS is defeated, there is a larger effort under way to make certain that we don't just sprout a new enemy. We know ISIS is going to go down. We have had success on the battlefield. We have freed millions of people from being under their control.

  James Mattis

  People, Effort, Enemy

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• We are going to have to continue to keep the pressure on the enemy. There is no room for complacency on this.

  James Mattis

  Enemy, Complacency

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• In a country with millions of people & cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in a while.

  James Mattis

  Country, People, Car

• It is mostly a matter of wills. Whose will is going to break first? Ours or the enemy's?

  James Mattis

  Enemy, Matter, Firsts

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