Marine Quotes · Page 8

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

— Winfield Scott

Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor's degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.

— Mark Kelly

We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.

— John M. McHugh

...let men express the intense admiration, which I share with all other Americans, of the record made by the Marines.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Ronald Reagan

“The thing about a marine is that they can be the nicest men and women you will ever meet, but when it…

— Joshua Mcnutt

An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy.

— James Mattis

What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.

— Michael Herr

Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one…

— William Manchester

As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the…

— Benjamin Disraeli

They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at…

— Thomas Holcomb

We have never been big smokers, neither Cheech [Marine] nor I. We were too creative, and we had a lot to do.…

— Tommy Chong

When I was in Vietnam I learned a lot about the promises that soldiers make to each other. The Marines have a…

— John F. Kerry

It was a ludicrous, insane situation in which modern fighting men, possessed all of the highly destructive engines of war, were ordered…

— Anonymous

In 2007, Michael Grimm, former Marine, former FBI agent, accountant and attorney, was poised for success as a small business owner. Instead,…

— Loretta Lynch

I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall…

— Anonymous

There is more to military units than hardware. There is the character of the unit's personnel: their strengths, experience, and knowledge, their…

— Tom Clancy

If we return abruptly to a Miocene-like climate, it's reasonable to think that we would experience a lot of extinctions, and maybe…

— Annalee Newitz

Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war…

— Thomas Sowell

Living in a bubble as I said in a featherbed of privilege. That's why leaving home, leaving the prep school and going…

— Bill Ayers

Just in time for the renewal of the war debate in Congress, the University of Chicago Press has released The U.S. Army…

— David L. Ulin

I hurt for my Marines, goodhearted American guys who'd bear these burdens for the rest of their lives. And I mourned for…

— Nathaniel Fick

Trump is much, much worse than people understand. In his ideal world, you would have an alliance between Trump, Putin, Marine Le…

— Van Jones

The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices…

— Ted Danson

The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

“Marines either know how to use an iron or they get married [...]. The iron is less dangerous.”

— Anonymous

I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the…

— Harry S. Truman

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

— Frederick W. Smith

We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military…

— James L. Jones

If you're a soldier or marine in an Arab country, Islam is the solution. And you need to show respect.

— David Brooks

Marijuana at the time we were making movies [with Cheech Marine] was not that readily available and I do prefer to be…

— Tommy Chong

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

— Phil Hartman

The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.

— Wynton Marsalis

Fish banks are areas we set aside without fishing, reserves where we allow marine life to come back.

— Enric Sala

I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. 'Can you be a cop?' Sure. 'Can you be a Marine?' Absolutely. Well,…

— Henry Rollins

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

— Daniel Daly

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

— Lee Trevino

Marines are expeditionary - we are meant to take on unfamiliar missions. But we are not police.

— Jake Auchincloss

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

— John W. Vessey, Jr

I'm actually very scared of sharks. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was young, which may not have been…

— Gillian Anderson