Marine Quotes - Page 6

• I'm a conservative because I believe in peace - real peace, not just the peace of mind. I'm a conservative because we understand that real peace comes from the Marine Corps, not the Peace Corps.

  Allen West

  Real, Believe, Mind

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• I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.'

  Jesse Ventura

  War, Book, Teaching

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• Their fiery advance and great tenacity were well recognized by their opponents.

  Ernst Otto Fischer

  Usmc, Opponents, Tenacity

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• I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General.

  Smedley Butler

  Country, Military, Years

  "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.

  Walter Scott

  Believe, Sailor, Belief

  Redgauntlet vol. 2, ch. 7 (1824). The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs traces the expression "Tell it to the marines" back to 1805.

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• My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy.

  Larry Elder

  Dad, Guy, Tough

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• The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.

  Kevin Powers

  Uncles, Father, Military

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• I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.

  Dan Dailey

  Inspirational, Military, Patriotic

  "The Marines' Bulletin", Vol. 1, Issues 1-3, 1918.

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• I went out to dinner with a Marine last weekend. He looked across the table and he goes, "I could kill you in seven seconds." I go, "I'll just have toast, then."

  Margaret Smith

  Funny, Humor, Weekend

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• We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

  John F. Kennedy

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

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• We are all members of the same great family ... On social occasions the formality of strictly military occasions should be relaxed, and a spirit of friendliness and goodwill should prevail.

  John A. Lejeune

  Military, Army, Spirit

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• When you’re working with Army and Marine Corps units, you immediately notice a difference. The Army is pretty tough, but their performance can depend on the individual unit. Some are excellent, filled with hoorah and first-class warriors. A few are absolutely horrible; most are somewhere in between. In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Every one of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers.

  Chris Kyle

  Mother, Warrior, Army

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• Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Army, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.198, Graphic Arts Books

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• No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Sea, Aquariums

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• The future success of the Marine Corps depends on two factors: first, an efficient performance of all duties to which its officers and men may be assigned; second, promptly bringing this efficiency to the attention of the proper officials of the government, and the American people.

  John A. Lejeune

  Men, Two, People

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• I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free men and women can fight like the dickens.

  James Mattis

  Inspirational, Courage, War

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• There it is. It is useless to ask ourselves why it is we who are here. We are here. There is only us between the airfield and the Japs. If we don't hold, we will loose Guadalcanal.

  Merritt A. Edson

  Useless, Asks, Ifs

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• We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.

  Michael Hudson

  Inspirational, Moving On, Moving Forward

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• Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Training, Vietnam, Marine Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish

  Leon Uris

  Struggle, Inspiration, Israel

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• The Marine Corps taught me commitment, courage, focus, and a value system that can easily suffice for people like me who aren't religious.

  Bob Lutz

  Religious, Commitment, People

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

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• We will embrace you in uniform today, we will embrace you without uniform tomorrow.

  Josephus Daniels

  Uniforms, Today, Tomorrow

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• A person cannot be a Marine without honor.

  Carl Epting Mundy, Jr.

  Military, Honor, Persons

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• Since 9/11 we've been engaged in wars around the world, and General [James] Mattis has been a leading battlefield commander in many of those theaters, including in the April 2004 siege of Fallujah, where the US Marines killed so many people that the municipal soccer stadium in the city had to be turned into a graveyard for the dead.

  James Mattis

  Soccer, War, Cities

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines.

  Ronald Reagan

  America, Looks, World

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