Marine Corps Quotes - Page 7

• Deep thinking in the ranks leads only to drinking.

  William Overgard

  Drinking, Marine, Thinking

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• It does not pay to be friendly with officers, they take advantage of you.

  William Overgard

  Marine, Friendly, Doe

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• I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had.

  Art Buchwald

  Home, Marine, Youth

  Art Buchwald (1994). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Thorndike Pr

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• I always equate wrestling to having been in the Marine Corps.

  William Baldwin

  Wrestling, Marine

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• If the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton, the Japanese bases in the Pacific were captured on the beaches of the Caribbean.

  Holland Smith

  Beach, Marine, Battle

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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, and redefine their approaches to achieve the ultimate in rapid, effective response to dynamic challenges.

  David A. Freedman

  Marine, Challenges, Survival

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• My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.

  Susana Martinez

  Mom, Dad, Marine

  "Republican Convention: Susana Martinez Admits Differences but Backs Romney" by Andrew O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Based on information from the Pentagon and estimates by analysts such as former Reagan Pentagon official Lawrence Korb, the costs of restoring destroyed and damaged Army and Marine Corps equipment is now estimated to be close to $30 billion, and it will grow by an additional $14 billion for every additional year we stay in Iraq. Even if these funds were available tomorrow, it would take years to restore the forces to the state they were in at the outset of the conflict.

  Daniel Benjamin

  Marine, Army, Tomorrow

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• I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.

  Robert Smith

  Marine, Relation, Captives

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• The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history.

  Bernard Brodie

  Successful, Marine, Korea

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• If you're from New York and you're Catholic, you're still Jewish. If you're from Butte Montana and you're Jewish, you're still goyisch. The Air Force is Jewish, the Marine Corps dangerous goyisch. Rye Bread is Jewish, instant potatoes, scary goyisch. Eddie Cantor is goyisch, George Jessel is goyisch-Coleman Hawkins is Jewish.

  Lenny Bruce

  New York, Marine, Air

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• It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps.

  Edward Kennedy

  Marine, Peace Corps

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• The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist -- McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.

  Thomas Friedman

  Marine, Army, Technology

  "A Manifesto for the Fast World". www.nytimes.com. March 28, 1999.

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• I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish

  Leon Uris

  Struggle, Inspiration, Marine

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• The Marine Corps ... took a boy and made him a man.

  Ed Bearss

  Military, Marine, Men

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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 neat-sort of the Felix Unger of baseball roomates. Blame it on the Marines.

  Jay Johnstone

  Baseball, Marine, Shoes

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• The Marine Corps taught me that I could achieve my goals. In short, the Marines made me believe in myself.

  Gregory Alan Williams

  Believe, Marine, Goal

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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 and most of all, I was undisciplined. The Marine Corps was the right service in the right place at the right time.

  Art Buchwald

  Marine, Stripes, Unhappy

  Art Buchwald (1993). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Putnam Pub Group

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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."

  Joshua R. Sands

  Military, War, Marine

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• Sir: It gives me pleasure to report to you the fine bearing and soldierly conduct of Captain Wilson and his men whilst absent on special duty. Though their duties were more arduous than those of others, they were always prompt and ready for performance of all they were called upon to do. As a body they would be a credit to any organization, and I will be glad to be associated with them on duty at any time.

  John Taylor Wood

  Marine, Men, Organization

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• I selected an enormous Marine Corps emblem to be tattooed across my chest. It required several sittings and hurt me like the devil, but the finished product was worth the pain. I blazed triumphantly forth, a Marine from throat to waist. The emblem is still with me. Nothing on earth but skinning will remove it.

  Smedley Butler

  Hurt, Pain, Marine

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• I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

  Smedley Butler

  Wall, Marine, Men

  "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.

  Harvey Keitel

  Marine, Ideas, People

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• Democrats have chosen not to defend the Marine Corps, but to pander to anti-war protesters and Berkeley officials that are actively trying to impede military recruitment.

  Jim DeMint

  Military, War, Marine

  "Reid’s move delayed rap on Berkeley". thehill.com. February 11, 2008.

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• The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.

  Adam Driver

  Responsibility, Marine, People

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