Marine Quotes
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.
They say "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." In the Marine Corps, you can make that horse wish to hell he had.
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 country.
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 team.
I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.
A compliance with the minutiae of military courtesy is a mark of well-disciplined troops.
Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.
MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN’T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.
There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go.
Coral reefs represent some of the worlds most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the seas most exquisite species will not survive.
I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.
We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.
I liked being in the Marines. They gave me discipline I could live with. By the time I got out, I was able to cope with things on a more realistic level.
I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.
I placed the Marines where the hardest work was to be accomplished, and I never once found my confidence in them misplaced.
Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.
But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.
Water is the basis of life and the blue arteries of the earth! Everything in the non-marine environment depends on freshwater to survive.
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?
I'm a conservative because I believe in peace - real peace, not just the peace of mind. I'm a conservative because we understand that real peace comes from the Marine Corps, not the Peace Corps.
I've been a survivor my whole life...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Muhammad Ali.
What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis?
One hundred and twenty Marines were detailed to officer a force of twenty-six hundred Haitians.
What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.
An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy.
...let men express the intense admiration, which I share with all other Americans, of the record made by the Marines.
I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.
Since the Cuban Revolution and since the invasion of Santo Domingo a state of emergency has existed in Latin America. The Marines shoot at anything that moves, regardless of partyaffiliation.
It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.
My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.
You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corps because of something that I said or did.
If officers desire to have control over their commands, they must remain habitually with them, industriously attend to their instruction and comfort, and in battle lead them well.
Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation
I think of the U.S. Marines like we used to think of the Foreign Legion; as big mouths with big hearts.
I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.
The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This isn't just an issue for the U.S. and Japan. It has regional implications.
There it is. It is useless to ask ourselves why it is we who are here. We are here. There is only us between the airfield and the Japs. If we don't hold, we will loose Guadalcanal.
