Marcus Luttrell Quotes

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Marcus Luttrell

Profession : Soldier

Birth : November 7, 1975

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

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I spend most of my time at the ranch with my family, and enjoy life - watch the sun come up, watch it go down, thank God for another day, and just be happy.

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Revenge is a powerful motivator.

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I died on that mountain, too. I left a part of myself up there.

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These 'lone wolves,' people like to call them, you've got to look at them not like a lone wolf but an individual operator who's been convinced in their head, brainwashed, whatever, that this is the way to go. And they will carry out their assaults systematically throughout.

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War's not black and white; it's gray. If you don't fight in the gray area, you're going to lose.

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When I came into the Perry family, it was one of those deals where it was the only family I had. I didn't have a father figure growing up like that, somebody who genuinely cared about me. Governor Perry taught me how to be a good man.

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I'm basically all titanium.

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When I came into the Perry family, it was just kind of one of those deals where they were the only family I had.

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We have to make sure the Hell the veterans come home from is not the Hell they come back to.

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When you start messing with the Constitution and what this country was founded on - our baseline is what we call it - it just opens up too many doors.

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If I had to say something to Americans, being afraid and having fear, it's okay to be fearful because that will make you strong; being afraid will shut you down.

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I wasn't the best frogman out there.

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In real life, it's war, and war's not entertainment. War is 'old men lying and young men dying' kind of deal. That's a saying; I didn't make that up.

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Who among you will love something more than you love yourself, all right?

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It's got to be both houses and the people coming together in unanimous decision when you start messing with the Constitution.

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To the next generation, your war is here; you don't have to find it.

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Bottom line is that there's bad people everywhere. And every now and again, we are going to have to step to them to make sure that we preserve our way of life.

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America is the light, and her people are the goodness that grows from that. She'll always be worth fighting for - it was my greatest honor to fight for her every day of my adult life.

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I guess we'd better start getting used to the consequences and permit the American liberals to squeak and squeal us to ultimate defeat.

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