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

    Military   Marine   Usmc  
  • By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

    Chester W. Nimitz's statement after the Battle of Iwo Jima, circa March - May 1945.
  • The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.

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

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

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

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

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

    War   Military   Marine  
  • Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed.

    Speech by Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta, Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, archive.defense.gov. August 10, 2012.
  • We have two companies of MARINES running all over this island and thousands of ARMY troops doing nothing!

    Running   Marine   Army  
  • It's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling.

    Peace   Fun   Military  
    "General: It's 'fun to shoot some people'". edition.cnn.com. February 4, 2005.
  • My great uncle Pvt. Tommy Rooney, USMC, was killed on Guam during the Pacific Campaign in World War II. I was named after him, so I always thought about him and wearing the uniform. The JAG Corps gave me that opportunity after law school.

    Uncles   War   School  
    "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.
  • People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

  • Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

    Hero   Marine   Endurance  
  • I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.

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

    Military   Heart   Marine  
  • So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time!

    Marine   Fire   Usmc  
  • We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?

  • No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.

    War   Thinking   Enemy  
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Military   Marine   Men  
  • We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem!

    Military   Marine   Usmc  
  • 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.

  • 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.

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

    Marine   Usmc   Opponents  
  • 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.

    Jobs   Military   Marine  
  • They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines.

  • There was always talk of espirit de corps, of being gung ho, and that must have been a part of it. Better, tougher training, more marksmanship on the firing range, the instant obedience to orders seared into men in boot camp.

    Military   Marine   Men  
    James Brady (2007). “The Coldest War: A Memoir of Korea”, p.9, Macmillan
  • Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they're so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.

    Sick   Enemy   Democracy  
  • 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, and who will suffer and die in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he has always been, from Imperial Rome to sceptered Britain to democratic America. He is the stuff of which legions are made. His pride is in his colors and his regiment, his training hard and thorough and coldly realistic, to fit him for what he must face and his obedience is to his orders. He has been called United States Marine.

    Pride   Marine   Fighting  
    T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). “This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War”, p.482, Open Road Media
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