Marine Quotes - Page 5

• Marines die, that's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means YOU live forever.

  Phil Hartman

  Mean, Forever, Usmc

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• We have two companies of MARINES running all over this island and thousands of ARMY troops doing nothing!

  John W. Vessey, Jr.

  Running, Army, Two

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  People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

  Richard Grenier

  Strength, Wisdom, Veterans Day

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• Goddamn it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!

  Henry Pierson Crowe

  Military, Heart, Purple

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• God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Fear, War, Games

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• Any officer can get by on his sergeants. To be a sergeant you have to know your stuff. I'd rather be an outstanding sergeant than just another officer.

  Daniel Daly

  Stuff, Outstanding, Officers

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• I placed the Marines where the hardest work was to be accomplished, and I never once found my confidence in them misplaced.

  Winfield Scott

  Found, Accomplished, Hardest

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• What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies were used lately were not men of sense nor of principle; in a high moral sense they were not men at all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Responsibility, Men, Law

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.129, David M Gross

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• Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Air, Years, Law

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• Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean. They're aggressive on the attack and tenacious on defense. They've got really short hair and they always go for the throat.

  Rodney Stark

  Military, Mean, Two

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• The more Marines I have around, the better I like it.

  Wesley Clark

  Usmc, Call Of Duty, Marine Corps

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• My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Years, Skills, Understanding

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• **** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

  David Farragut

  War, Military, Army

  At the battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 ('torpedoes' were mines). Capt. A. T. Mahan 'Admiral Farragut' (1892) ch. 10

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• The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

  Harry S. Truman

  Army, Long, History

  Harry S. Truman (1995). “The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?

  John W. Vessey, Jr.

  Running, Military, Army

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• A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  Military, Knights, Endurance

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• Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

  George F. Kennan

  Hero, Endurance, Usmc

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• The American Marines have it [pride], and benefit from it. They are tough, cocky, sure of themselves and their buddies. They can fight and they know it.

  Mark W. Clark

  Cocky, Fighting, Pride

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• I can't say enough about the two Marine divisions. If I use words like 'brilliant,' it would really be an under description of the absolutely superb job that they did in breaching the so-called 'impenetrable barrier.' It was a classic- absolutely classic- military breaching of a very very tough minefield, barbed wire, fire trenches-type barrier.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Jobs, Military, Fire

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• By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Country, Military, Iwo Jima

  Chester W. Nimitz's statement after the Battle of Iwo Jima, circa March - May 1945.

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• What shall I say of the gallantry with which these Marines have fought! Of the slopes of Hill 142; of the Mares Farm; of the Bois de Belleau and the Village of Bouresches stained with their blood, and not only taken away from the Germans in the full tide of their advance against the French, but held by my boys against counter attacks day after day and night after night. I cannot write of their splendid gallantry without tears coming to my eyes.

  James Harbord

  Taken, Eye, Writing

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• Whatever the job is, we can do it. Thats why the nation has a Marine Corps.

  James F. Amos

  Jobs, Adaptability, Nations

  "Reshaping Your Corps". Interview with Bob Drury, www.menshealth.com. June 2, 2011.

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• Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Discipline, Marine Life

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• I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines...imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the "Old Corps."

  Joshua R. Sands

  Military, War, Army

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• So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Causes, Purpose, Conquer

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