Best Marine Quotations
352 Marine quotes by 223 unique authors
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Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, todays Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine…
— Zell Miller
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Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war or not. But…
— Thomas Sowell
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The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take…
— Steven Pressfield
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I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of…
— William McKinley
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At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution,
— James F. Cooper
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Cowards cut and run, Marines never do.
— Jean Schmidt
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It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are…
— Charles Lyell
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For proponents of ecosystem-based management,the good news is that another new book, Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans, conveys the topic at its state-of-the-art level of…
— Carl Safina
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The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.
— Sylvia Earle
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I served two tours in Iraq, in the Marine Corps.
— Josh Mandel
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I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this…
— Scott Ritter
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You want to know who's now running the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the Marines and calling the shots where it counts? Fundamentalist Muslims…
— Bryan Fischer
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The man who will go where his colors go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in the jungle and mountain range, without counting,…
— T. R. Fehrenbach
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The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And…
— Thomas Friedman
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Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.
— Walter Scott
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I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.
— Leon Uris
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I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish
— Leon Uris
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If the Marines are abolished half the efficiency of the Navy will be destroyed. They are as necessary to the well being of a ship…
— David Dixon Porter
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Throughout my professional life, I have looked upon the Corps as a most valuable part of our naval organization, and this opinion has only been…
— Unknown Author
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Sir: It gives me pleasure to report to you the fine bearing and soldierly conduct of Captain Wilson and his men whilst absent on special…
— Unknown Author
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I selected an enormous Marine Corps emblem to be tattooed across my chest. It required several sittings and hurt me like the devil, but the…
— Smedley Butler
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Their fiery advance and great tenacity were well recognized by their opponents.
— Unknown Author
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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…
— Unknown Author
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...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might…
— Woodrow Wilson
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