Marine Quotes - Page 2

• The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.

  James Forrestal

  Military, War, Mean

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• Let us remember with devotion that the flag we love and honor is the flag of freedom that flew in victory at Yorktown, the flag the United States Marines raised on Mount Suribachi, the flag Francis Scott Key saw by the dawn's early light. Long may it wave.

  Ronald Reagan

  Keys, Light, Long

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• They say "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." In the Marine Corps, you can make that horse wish to hell he had.

  Fred Larson

  Horse, Military, Drinking

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• Donald Trump is going to take our Army up to 6,000. And Obama and Hillary are going to take it down to 4,200. He is going to take our Marine Corps from 23 battalions to 35 battalions. And he's going to reestablish and modernize our nuclear program.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Army, Nuclear, Program

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I had always enjoyed the title of Commander-in-Chief until I was informed ... that the only forces that cannot be transferred from Washington without my express permission are the members of the Marine Corps Band. Those are the only forces I have. I want it announced that we propose to hold the White House against all odds at least for some time to come.

  John F. Kennedy

  White, Odds, House

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• Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.

  Ronald Reagan

  Veterans Day, Differences, People

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• Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning.

  David M. Shoup

  Military, Winning, Usmc

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• In the last analysis, what the Marine Corps becomes is what we make of it during our respective watches. And that watch of each Marine is not confined to the time he spends on active duty. It last as long as he is "proud to bear the title of United States Marine."

  Louis H. Wilson, Jr.

  Time, Military, Army

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• Tell that to the Marines!

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Marine Corps

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• A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.

  David Dixon Porter

  Military, Buttons, Usmc

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• Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with.

  Bob Hope

  Sailor, Naval, Vessel

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• Get off your butt and join the Marines!

  John Wayne

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• Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines.

  John J. Pershing

  Military, Army, Men

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• I have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold.

  Clifton B. Cates

  Suicide, Military, Gun

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• If there's anything more arrogant than a Marine on a horse, it's one in a plane.

  William Overgard

  Horse, Arrogant, Planes

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• They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines.

  Thomas Holcomb

  Military, Atmosphere, Training

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• During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he didn't believe it was buried there] and reburied it in a metal box.

  Tony Horwitz

  War, Believe, Battle

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• I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It's one of the best things I've had a chance to do.

  Adam Driver

  Jobs, People, Chance

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• Marine and Army women have deployed with infantry units in Iraq and Afghanistan in what's called female engagement teams, going into villages, talking with women and sometimes coming under fire.

  Renee Montagne

  Team, Army, Fire

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem!

  Chesty Puller

  Military, Usmc, Problem

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• There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Military, Fighting, Axes

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• Look, many of us here are regular marines... I will die as a marine because that is my dream.

  Jerry Jones

  Dream, Looks, Dies

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• Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.

  Alfred M. Gray

  Military, Usmc, Firsts

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• Be kindly and just in your dealings with your men. Never play favorites. Make them feel that justice tempered with mercy may always be counted on. This does not mean a slackening of discipline. Obedience to orders and regulations must always be insisted upon, and good conduct on the part of the men exacted. Especially should this be done with reference to civilian inhabitants of foreign countries in which Marines are serving.

  John A. Lejeune

  Country, Mean, Men

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• We had generals who were admirals and admirals who wanted to be generals. Generals acting as admirals are bad enough, but it was the admirals who wanted to be generals who imperiled victory among the coral islands.

  Holland Smith

  Islands, Victory, Acting

  General Holland M. Smith (2014). “Coral And Brass”, p.39, Pickle Partners Publishing

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