My Marine Quotes
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My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.
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I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps.
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The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.
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I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
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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.
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Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.
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A Marine is a Marine. I set that policy two weeks ago - there's no such thing as a former Marine. You're a Marine, just in a different uniform and you're in a different phase of your life. But you'll always be a Marine because you went to Parris Island, San Diego or the hills of Quantico. There's no such thing as a former Marine.
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If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.
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Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed.
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We have two companies of MARINES running all over this island and thousands of ARMY troops doing nothing!
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They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.
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You can't handle the truth!
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I hurt for my Marines, goodhearted American guys who'd bear these burdens for the rest of their lives. And I mourned for myself. Not in self-pity, but for the kid who'd come to Iraq. He was gone. I did all this in the dark, away from the platoon, because combat command is the loneliest job in the world.
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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
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The Marines fought almost solely on esprit de corps, I was certain. It was inconceivable to most Marines that they should let another Marine down, or that they could be responsible for dimming the bright reputation of their Corps. The Marines simply assumed that they were the world's best fighting men.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Heroism is endurance for one moment more.
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I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.
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Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines.
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Goddamn it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!
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Demonstrate to the world there is "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" than a U.S. Marine.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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