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What the American people want to do is fight a war without getting hurt. You can't do that any more than you can get into a barroom fight without getting hurt... Unless the American people are willing to send their sons out to fight an aggressor, there just isn't going to be any United States.- Chesty Puller
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That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth. ― Tim O'Brien
I've always believed that no officer's life, regardless of rank, is of such great value to his country that he should seek safety in the rear... Officers should be forward with their men at the point of impact. -Chesty Puller
There are only two great tragedies in life: one is not getting what you want and the other is getting it. - Oscar Wilde
In the Marine Corps, your buddy is not only your classmate or fellow officer, but he is also the Marine under your command. If you don't prepare yourself to properly train him, lead him, and support him on the battlefield, then you're going to let him down. That is unforgivable in the Marine Corps. -Chesty Puller
My definition, a definition in the drill books from the time that General Von Steuben wrote the regulations for General George Washington, the definition of the object of military training is success in battle... It wouldn't be any sense to have a military organization on the backs of the American taxpayers with any other definition. -Chesty Puller
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.―W. P. Kinsella
Living is the art of getting used to what we didn’t expect. – Eleanor C. Wood
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em. -Chesty Puller
You are stopping you, you are giving up instead of getting hard. ― David Goggins
