Oliver North > Quotes

“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.”
― Oliver North, Counterfeit Lies

“Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.”
― Oliver North, Counterfeit Lies

“An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.”
― Oliver North, Counterfeit Lies

“Heros aren't defined by the way they die but how they live.”
― Oliver North, War Stories: Operation Iraqi Freedom

“Whoever has the sword will have the earth.”
― Oliver North, Counterfeit Lies

“My tattered old Webster's defines hero as a "legendary figure . . . endowed with great strength and ability . . . an illustrious warrior . . . a person possessing great courage." There's another important characteristic of heroes: they place themselves at risk for the benefit of others.”
― Oliver North, American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam

“we shall acquit ourselves with honor, that we may never bring shame upon our faith, our families, or our fellow men.”
― Oliver North, American Heroes in Special Operations

“For better or worse, most people's lives seem to turn out rather differently from what they had expected”
― Oliver North

“For a radical Jihadist, this fight is all about dying the right way while killing an infidel. For us, it's all about living the right way because all the dying necessary was done for us two thousand years ago on a hill called Calvary.”
― Oliver North, American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam

“The Bible says there is a time for peace and a time for war. Now is the time for war. I cannot wait to say it is now a time for peace." — MAJ James Brisson, Chaplain, 1-160th SOAR, 19 October 2001, Afghanistan”
― Oliver North, American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam

“For some, a hero wears a spandex suit and a cape. My heroes wear flak jackets, flight suits, and combat boots.”
― Oliver North, American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam

“Though a warrior must often suppress other emotions on the battlefield, love is the exception—because embodied in that virtue are all the best qualities a human can possess.”
― Oliver North, American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam

“Americans don't fight for gold or oil or colonial conquest; we fight for an idea—liberty.”
― Oliver North, American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam

“Frenchie spoke: 'Captain, you should have seen my lieutenant. He was magnificent.' It wasn't the word magnificent that meant so much. It was what he called me--not 'the lieutenant,' or 'Blue,' or 'Lieutenant North,' but 'my lieutenant.' To this day those words mean more to me than everything else said or written about my time in the Marines. The very brave young men of 2d Platoon, Company K weren't mine--I was theirs!”
― Oliver North, One More Mission: Oliver North Returns to Vietnam

“In the words of William McKinley, "Our flag has never waved over any community but in blessing.”
― Oliver North, American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam

“the U.S. Army's "seven core values" embody the very qualities contained in Paul's first letter to the church he had planted in Corinth: Leadership, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage.”
― Oliver North, American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam

“People don't like him (John Poindexter) for the same reason they don't like me…If you get things done in this bureaucracy you step on toes.”
― Oliver North

“SGT Steven C. Ganczewski, a Ranger in editor Chuck Holton's unit, had been asked by a high-school guidance counselor why a young man with his "potential" would join the Army. "Someone with his potential"--as if selfless service, even to the point of giving one's life for a cause greater than any one of us--is somehow beneath one's "potential." Thankfully, Patrick Henry and George Washington didn't feel that way in 1775.”
― Oliver North, American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam

“Compassion doesn't take sides—”
― Oliver North, American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam

“Today those who stand, almost alone, against the Jihadis are young American soldiers, sailors, airmen, Guardsmen, and Marines. We should thank God that they still volunteer to serve.”
― Oliver North, American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam

“Be the hunter—not the hunted. Never be caught with your guard down. Use good judgment and act in the best interest of our nation.”
― Oliver North, American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam

“Sometimes it takes a terrible tragedy for people to see their need for God. Confronted with terrible evil, Americans have sought divine help before. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln both prayed publicly for the nation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's prayer for America in the opening salvos of D-day is a beautiful example: ". . . for us at home—fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas, whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them—help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice." Regrettably, it is also part of the human condition to quickly forget the need for prayer once we perceive that a threat has passed and "normalcy" has been restored. This makes the words penned in 1632 by Renaissance poet Francis Quarles particularly poignant today: Our God and soldier we alike adore Ev'n at the brink of danger, not before; After deliverance, both alike requited, Our God's forgotten, and our soldiers slighted.”
― Oliver North, American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam

“Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.”
― Oliver North, American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam

“I believe in the meaning of honor and integrity. I am an action person who feels personally responsible for making any changes in this world that are in my power . . . because if I don't, no one else will." — Mike Spann, excerpt from his CIA application”
― Oliver North, American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam

“The objective was simple: capture or kill the brutal leader of a kidnapping ring with ties to the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), a terrorist group devoted to the overthrow of the democratically elected Iraqi government. By September 2007, many of the sectarian militias and insurgent groups had been pushed out of central Baghdad and into havens outside the capital. Samarra, a historic city on the Tigris River, eighty miles north of Baghdad became the refuge for a particularly vicious insurgent faction.”
― Oliver North, American Heroes in Special Operations

“You know, I may have another book in me, old man.”
― Oliver North, Mission Compromised

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails" (1 Corinthians 13:4–8a NIV).”
― Oliver North, American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam

“Had Chamberlain and the Europeans stood up to Hitler in 1938, rather than appeasing him, World War II might have been prevented and the death of 405,399 Americans might have been avoided.”
― Oliver North, American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam

“There are countless poor and uneducated people around the world. The vast majority of them, if they think of America at all, don't want to kill us; they simply want to be here. Many, as we know from both legal and illegal immigration, want to come to the United States to partake in the opportunity that is every American's birthright. They have no interest in flying airplanes into buildings or putting on an exploding vest.”
― Oliver North, American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam

“But I’d like to continue to talk long-term business plans with”
― Oliver North, Counterfeit Lies