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

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

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

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