I assure you, Virginia, that I, never in my life, have ever made a statement that "I like to fight."

Repudiating a statement attributed to him in a newspaper, in a letter to his wife (October 1950) as quoted in Chesty: The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC (2001) by Jon T. Hoffman, Ch. 19 : "Not My Way Of Fighting A Battle", p. 371