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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
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Paperwork will ruin any military force. -Chesty Puller
Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there.
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. ― Audrey Hepburn
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em. -Chesty Puller
The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
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
A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. Isoroku Yamamoto
It is a principle of the art of war that one should simply lay down his life and strike. If one's opponent also does the same, it is a even match. Defeating one's opponent is then a matter of faith and destiny.
