Marine Quotes - Page 9

• I had gone to school to study marine biology.

  Skeet Ulrich

  School, Gone, Study

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• The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.

  Michael Oxley

  Military, Cutting, Army

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• Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'

  Al Capone

  Fall, Cat, Boys

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• Due to the oath I swore to the constitution when I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, by virtue of the universal human right to self defense, in accordance with the Supreme Court case, D.C. vs. Heller, which affirmed that the statutes under which I am being charged are unconstitutional and thus null and void, and on behalf of all freedom loving Americans, I plead not guilty.

  Adam Kokesh

  Self, United States, Null

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• But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life.

  Hugh Shelton

  Opportunity, Soldier, Honor

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• A marine protozoan is an aqueous salty system in an aqueous salty medium, but a man is an aqueous salty system in a medium in which there is but little water and most of that poor in salts.

  John Zachary Young

  Science, Men, Water

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• They fought their first action in March of 1775. Embarked on eight small ships, they sailed to the Bahamas and captured a British fort near Nassau, seizing gunpowder and supplies. Later, during the Revolutionary War, Marines fought several engagements in their distinctive green coats, such as helping George Washington to cross the Delaware River, and assisting John Paul Jones on the Bonhomme Richard to capture the British frigate Serapis during their famous sea fight.

  Tom Clancy

  War, Fighting, Eight

  "Marine". Book by Tom Clancy, 1996.

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• I was on the second helicopter and arrived moments before Marine One touched down at Brenton Point in Newport, R.I. I bet one of the advance staff that after landing, instead of walking to the motorcade the President would walk across the road to view the ocean at sunset. I won the bet.

  Pete Souza

  Ocean, Sunset, Views

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• Who has created more peace in the world, the Peace Corps or the Marine Corps?

  Dennis Prager

  Marine Corps, World, Peace Corps

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• As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Volcanoes, Opposites, America

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4987, Delphi Classics

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• Fleets cannot operate without bases.

  John A. Lejeune

  Marine Corps, Bases

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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, Men, Class

  "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 only things those people have that you don't is guts. Do you wanna live forever?

  Merritt A. Edson

  Courage, Military, Army

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• The Marine Corps went from 15,000, which its strength was when I was Commandant, to approximately 400,000 when I retired, and more than that afterward, without losing its individual characteristics. It was the same Marine Corps. It was not different in any respect.

  Thomas Holcomb

  Different, Losing, Individual

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• I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Winning, Firsts

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• I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the Marine Corps.

  Harry S. Truman

  Regret, Choices, Letters

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1950, Volume 6".

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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

  Able, Needs, Nicknames

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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

  Numbers, Training, Navy

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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, Thinking, Mouths

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• It was a ludicrous, insane situation in which modern fighting men, possessed all of the highly destructive engines of war, were ordered to attack a medieval fortress using no weapons that would destroy or harm it.

  Dale Dye

  War, Fighting, Men

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• Our young men in Vietnam have not only acquitted themselves in an outstanding manner during combat operations, but they also have been outstanding ambassadors of goodwill in the vital civic action and pacification work among the tortured populace of South Vietnam.

  Lewis William Walt

  Men, Ambassadors, Vietnam

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• We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.

  John M. McHugh

  Army, Growth, Ends

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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, Order, Inventory

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• Retention of operational control of its air is important to the Corps' air-ground team, as air constitutes a significant part of its offensive firepower.

  Keith B. McCutcheon

  Team, Air, Important

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• After about 25 medals, you run out of shoulder to put them on.

  George S. Day

  Running, Shoulders, Medal

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