United States Marine Quotes

• I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps.

  Jonathan Winters

  Military, Marine, Usmc

  64 Copy quote
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  The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Thank You, Military, Marine

  153 Copy quote

• 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, Marine, Fighting

  54 Copy quote

• 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, Marine

  51 Copy quote

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

  James Forrestal

  Military, War, Mean

  95 Copy quote

• Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Military, War, Marine

  62 Copy quote

• The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps.

  Alexander Vandegrift

  Military, Marine, Usmc

  56 Copy quote

• A Marine is a Marine. I set that policy two weeks ago - there's no such thing as a former Marine. You're a Marine, just in a different uniform and you're in a different phase of your life. But you'll always be a Marine because you went to Parris Island, San Diego or the hills of Quantico. There's no such thing as a former Marine.

  James F. Amos

  Military, Marine, Islands

  62 Copy quote

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

  Alfred M. Gray

  Military, Marine, Usmc

  53 Copy quote

• I can never again see a UNITED STATES MARINE without experiencing a feeling of reverence.

  Edward Johnson

  Marine, Feelings, Usmc

  11 Copy quote

• If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Military, Marine

  9 Copy quote

• The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle!

  John J. Pershing

  Military, Marine, Rifles

  261 Copy quote

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

  Phil Hartman

  Mean, Marine, Forever

  11 Copy quote

• 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, Marine

  53 Copy quote

• 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, Marine, Army

  136 Copy quote

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

  David Dixon Porter

  Military, Marine, Buttons

  52 Copy quote
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  For over 221 years our Corps has done two things for this great Nation. We make Marines, and we win battles.

  Charles C. Krulak

  Military, Marine, Winning

  75 Copy quote

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

  David M. Shoup

  Military, Marine, Winning

  70 Copy quote

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

  Henry Pierson Crowe

  Military, Heart, Marine

  12 Copy quote

• 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, Marine, Knights

  52 Copy quote

• Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just having air power or ship's fire, when it comes to deterring a crisis. And the ships and Marines may not have to do anything but lie offshore. It is hard to lie offshore with a C-141 or C-130 full of airborne troops.

  Colin Powell

  Lying, Military, Mean

  18 Copy quote

• Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there.

  Victor H. Krulak

  Motivational, Military, Marine

  66 Copy quote
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  The Marine Corps has just been called by the New York Times, 'The elite of this country.' I think it is the elite of the world.

  William Halsey

  Country, New York, Military

  80 Copy quote

• I still need Marines who can shoot and salute. But I need Marines who can fix jet engines and man sophisticated radar sets, as well.

  Robert E. Cushman, Jr.

  Military, Marine, Men

  48 Copy quote

• I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, Fighting, Marine

  85 Copy quote