110 Quotes by Oliver North

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    The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody.

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    For some, a hero wears a spandex suit and a cape. My heroes wear flak jackets, flight suits, and combat boots.

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    Heros aren’t defined by the way they die but how they live.

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    And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them – in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.

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    I don’t think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.

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    I haven’t, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order – not one.

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    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.

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    For better or worse, most people’s lives seem to turn out rather differently from what they had expected.

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