Home > Author > Oliver North

Oliver North QUOTES

Oliver North QUOTES

1 " 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

2 " Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying. "

― Oliver North , Counterfeit Lies

3 " Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet. "

― Oliver North , Counterfeit Lies

4 " Whoever has the sword will have the earth. "

― Oliver North , Counterfeit Lies

5 " An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy. "

― Oliver North , Counterfeit Lies

6 " Heros aren't defined by the way they die but how they live. "

― Oliver North , War Stories: Operation Iraqi Freedom

7 " 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

8 " 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

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

― Oliver North

10 " 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

11 " Compassion doesn't take sides— "

― Oliver North , American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam

12 " 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

13 " 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

14 " 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

15 " 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

16 " I'm TRUSTING in the LORD & a GOOd LAWYER "

― Oliver North

17 " 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

18 " But I’d like to continue to talk long-term business plans with "

― Oliver North , Counterfeit Lies

19 " 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

20 " 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