141 Quotes by Jim Mattis

Fight with a happy heart.

What is the one country in the Middle East that has not been attacked by ISIS? One. That is Iran. That is more than happenstance, I'm sure.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

If you can't eat it, shoot it, or wear it, don't bring it.

Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don't understand it. It's like America has lost faith in rational thought.

The economy's always been the engine for our national security.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

I can't tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I'd done so much reading.

Marines don't know how to spell the word 'defeat'.