Best Marine Words
352 Marine quotes by 223 unique authors
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Tell that to the Marines!
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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…
— James Mattis
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Demonstrate to the world there is 'No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy' than a U.S. Marine.
— James Mattis
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We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.
— Michael Hudson
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One hundred and twenty Marines were detailed to officer a force of twenty-six hundred Haitians.
— Smedley Butler
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We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The Marine Corps ... took a boy and made him a man.
— Ed Bearss
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We found a water pipe, tied the flag to it and put it up. Then all hell broke loose below. Troops cheered, ships blew whistles,…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Success in battle is not a function of how many show up, but who they are.
— Unknown Author
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Your Marines having been under my command for nearly six months, I feel that I can give you a discriminating report as to their excellent…
— John J. Pershing
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The Marine Corps is proud of the fact that it is a force of combined arms, and it jealously guards the integrity of its air-ground…
— Keith B. McCutcheon
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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
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It would take one million men, one hundred years
— Unknown Author
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Ensure that no Marine who honorably wore the eagle, globe and anchor is lost to the Marine Corps family.
— James L. Jones
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I was a model Marine.. My rifle was always clean, uniform always starched, and the shoes always shined. I guess that's how I became so…
— Unknown Author
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The Marine Corps taught me that I could achieve my goals. In short, the Marines made me believe in myself.
— Unknown Author
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A Marine is never intimidated.
— Tom Monaghan
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Being in the Marine Corps was the best thing that ever happened to me. It can do a lot for a young guy. I owe…
— Tom Monaghan
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I earned my stripes as a Marine, and the Corps gets full credit for straightening me out. At 17, I was young, I was unhappy…
— Art Buchwald
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I have learned two important lessons from my association with the Marine Corps: always be on time and always be ready to do what is…
— Ed McMahon
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With their survival as an institution and as individual human beings at stake, the Marines have had to ruthlessly and endlessly examine, discard, define, refine,…
— Unknown Author
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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."
— Unknown Author
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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…
— Unknown Author
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A compliance with the minutiae of military courtesy is a mark of well-disciplined troops.
— John A. Lejeune
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Fleets cannot operate without bases.
— John A. Lejeune
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