You don't achieve anything by stopping at the first sign of difficulty. If we'd stopped after Dieppe in World War II, where would we be right now as …

- Rick Hillier

I'll tell you one thing, when you have young men and women in combat operations and they lose their friends, one thing you quickly learn not to be as…

- Rick Hillier

Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of tanks. It can be contagious and it's necessary to being a leader.

- Rick Hillier

We're not the public service of Canada, we're not just another department. We are the Canadian Forces, and our job is to be able to kill people.

- Rick Hillier