Chris Kyle Quotes

Marines — you beat them down and they come back for more.

As far as I can see it, anyone who has a problem with what guys do over there is incapable of empathy.

The good people of this world are very far from being satisfied with each other and my arms are the best peacemakers.” — Samuel Colt, 1852

But that’s politics for you: a bunch of game-players sitting around congratulating each other in safety while real lives are getting screwed up.

He’d already accepted that he was going to die, and he wanted to do it there, not at home from a disease he couldn’t fight with a gun or his fists. “It doesn’t matter,” he told me. “I’ll die and you’ll find someone else. People die out here all the time. Their wives go on and find someone else.

I loved killing bad guys.

For some reason, a lot of people back home — not all people — didn’t accept that we were at war. They didn’t accept that war means death, violent death most times. A lot of people, not just politicians, wanted to impose ridiculous fantasies on us, hold us to some standard of behavior that no human being could maintain. I’m not saying war crimes should be committed. I am saying that warriors need to be let loose to fight war without their hands tied behind their backs. According to the ROEs I followed in Iraq, if someone came into my house, shot my wife, my kids, and then threw his gun down, I was supposed to NOT shoot him. I was supposed to take him gently into custody. Would you?

They had signs about baby killers and murderers and whatever, protesting the troops who were going over to fight. They were protesting the wrong people. We didn’t vote in Congress; we didn’t vote to go to war. I signed up to protect this country. I do not choose the wars.

I’d tell them how old I was, they’d stare at me and say, “You’re that old?” I was thirty. An old man in Fallujah.

I certainly found most of the Marines and soldiers I worked with to be top-notch. You had your exceptions — but then you have your exceptions in the Navy, too.

Someone once asked me if I had a favorite distance. My answer was easy: the closer the better.

Isn’t religion supposed to teach tolerance?

Medals never tell the whole story. And like I said, in the end they’ve become more political than accurate.

I was raised with, and still believe in, the Christian faith. If I had to order my priorities, they would be God, Country, Family. There might be some debate on where those last two fall — these days I’ve come around to believing that Family may, under some circumstances, outrank Country. But it’s a close race.

Help people help themselves — that’s the way it should be.