Marine Corps Quotes - Page 5

• Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.

  Adam Driver

  Team, Marine, Knowing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The aim of every woman is to be truly integrated into the Corps. She is able and willing to undertake any assignment consonant with Marine Corps needs, and is proudest of all that she has no nickname. She is a "Marine."

  Katherine Amelia Towle

  Marine, Able, Needs

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• War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

  Philip Caputo

  War, Mean, Marine

  Philip Caputo (2014). “A Rumor of War”, p.6, Macmillan

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• I am the harvest of man's stupidity. I am the fruit of the holocaust. I prayed like you to survive, but look at me now. It is over for us who are dead, but you must struggle, and will carry the memories all your life. People back home will wonder why you can't forget.

  Eugene B. Sledge

  Life, Memories, War

  Eugene B Sledge (2010). “With the Old Breed: The World War Two Pacific Classic”, p.272, Random House

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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.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Jobs, Military, Marine

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• This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

  Elmer Davis

  Country, Courage, Veterans Day

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• There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Running, Safe, Republican

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

  Dan Dailey

  Inspirational, Military, Patriotic

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

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• The more Marines I have around, the better I like it.

  Wesley Clark

  Marine, Usmc, Call Of Duty

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• You can run but you can't hide

  Emily Giffin

  Running, Escaping, Hiding

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.353, Macmillan

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

  Alton Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.

  Stan Laurel

  Horse, Teach A Man To Fish, Water

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• 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.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Desire, Battle, Comfort

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• The Marine Corps taught me commitment, courage, focus, and a value system that can easily suffice for people like me who aren't religious.

  Bob Lutz

  Religious, Commitment, Marine

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

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• In one of his final acts in office, President Obama shortened the sentences of 209 prisoners, pardoned 64 individuals .The list included Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, longtime imprisoned Puerto Rican independence activist Oscar López Rivera and retired U.S. Marine Corps General James Cartwright. But missing from the list is 71-year-old Native American activist Leonard Peltier.

  Amy Goodman

  Native American, Marine, Army

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.

  Raymond Kelly

  Military, Marine, Self

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• The Marine Corps has been, and will continue to be, America's Expeditionary Force in Readiness - ready to respond to today's crisis, with today's Marine forces, today.

  James F. Amos

  Marine, America, Today

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• We had generals who were admirals and admirals who wanted to be generals. Generals acting as admirals are bad enough, but it was the admirals who wanted to be generals who imperiled victory among the coral islands.

  Holland Smith

  Marine, Islands, Victory

  General Holland M. Smith (2014). “Coral And Brass”, p.39, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Fleets cannot operate without bases.

  John A. Lejeune

  Marine, Bases

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• We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.

  Michael Hudson

  Inspirational, Moving On, Moving Forward

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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 can fight like the dickens.

  James Mattis

  Inspirational, Courage, War

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• You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Marine, Army, Thinking

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• What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts?
  The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.

  Michael Herr

  Marine, Boys, Differences

  Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.101, Vintage

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• Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.

  Walter Scott

  Believe, Marine, Sailor

  Redgauntlet vol. 2, ch. 7 (1824). The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs traces the expression "Tell it to the marines" back to 1805.

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• General [James] Mattis's primary experience - indeed, his only experience - is as a member of the United States Marine Corps, where he served for 41 years. That's his experience.

  James Mattis

  Marine, Years, United States

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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