Marine Corps Quotes - Page 7

• Deep thinking in the ranks leads only to drinking.

  William Overgard

  Drinking, Marine, Thinking

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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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• The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.

  Karl Marlantes

  Marine, Taught, Killing

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like To Go To War”, p.13, Atlantic Books Ltd

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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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• Americans often did not realize that their Marine Corps was a force without counterpart in the world. European navies used Marines for limited duties on shipboard or in naval bases, but neither the numbers nor the training were provided for large-scale offensive operations.

  Lynn Montross

  Marine, Numbers, Training

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

  Edward Kennedy

  Marine, Peace Corps

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Aviation is a dynamic profession. The rate of obsolescence of equipment is high and new aircraft have to be placed in inventory periodically in order to stay abreast of the requirements of modern war.

  Keith B. McCutcheon

  War, Marine, Order

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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 think of the U.S. Marines like we used to think of the Foreign Legion; as big mouths with big hearts.

  Catherine Leroy

  Heart, Marine, Thinking

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• I served two tours in Iraq, in the Marine Corps.

  Josh Mandel

  Marine, Two, Iraq

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• 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.

  Scott Ritter

  Country, Mean, Marine

  Interview with David Asman, www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2002.

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• There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

  Alfred M. Gray

  Lonely, Military, Crowded Places

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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 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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