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The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's. -- Harry S. Truman
Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings. -- Adam Driver
Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary. -- Alfred M. Gray
The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class. -- Adam Driver
The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years. -- James Forrestal
In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks. -- Ralph Peters
Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps. -- James F. Amos
I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine. -- Gene Hackman
Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed. -- Chesty Puller
Ensure that no Marine who honorably wore the eagle, globe and anchor is lost to the Marine Corps family. -- James L. Jones
My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills. -- Frederick W. Smith
I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years. -- Lee Trevino
So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes. -- Robert Kiyosaki
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
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. -- William Halsey
My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. -- Larry Elder
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity. -- William Manchester
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. -- Thomas Holcomb
I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. -- Smedley Butler
The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps! -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity. -- Robert Kiyosaki
One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned. -- Jon Kyl
I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service. -- Buzz Aldrin
A Marine is never intimidated. -- Tom Monaghan
Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp. -- R. Lee Ermey
Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps. -- R. Lee Ermey
And once by God, I was a Marine! -- Lee Marvin
A person cannot be a Marine without honor. -- Carl Epting Mundy, Jr.
In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose. -- Adam Driver
I served two tours in Iraq, in the Marine Corps. -- Josh Mandel
The Marine Corps ... took a boy and made him a man. -- Ed Bearss
I always equate wrestling to having been in the Marine Corps. -- William Baldwin
The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain. -- Philip Caputo
For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home. -- Phil Klay
It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps. -- Edward Kennedy
Who has created more peace in the world, the Peace Corps or the Marine Corps? -- Dennis Prager
I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps. -- Jonathan Winters
If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war. -- Douglas MacArthur
If there's anything more arrogant than a Marine on a horse, it's one in a plane. -- William Overgard
Marine protected areas, and particularly no-take zones, are very effective in allowing regeneration of fish stocks. -- Helen Clark
We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength. -- John M. McHugh
Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering. -- Catherine Bell
Whatever the job is, we can do it. Thats why the nation has a Marine Corps. -- James F. Amos
In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy. -- Robert Kiyosaki
[ General James Mattis] is a Marine's Marine who has served in combat in both Afghanistan and Iraq. -- Peter R. Mansoor
Spread the gospel that the Marine Corps is a force that has changed. We're not in 1942 anymore. -- James F. Amos
I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life. -- Jim Webb
Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation -- Jean-Marie Le Pen
Demonstrate to the world there is 'No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy' than a U.S. Marine. -- James Mattis
I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had. -- Art Buchwald
My brother was a captain in the Marine Corps and a very big hero in my life. -- Peter Cullen
I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps. -- Frederick W. Smith
Penny was a very pretty, witty and brave girl, as bold as a Marine platoon storming Iwo Jima. -- John C. Wright
The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing. -- Karl Marlantes
The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible. -- Wynton Marsalis
What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership. -- Michael Herr
I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish -- Leon Uris
I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. -- Leon Uris
Marines die, that's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means YOU live forever. -- Phil Hartman
Great Marine commanders, like all great warriors, are able to kill that which they love most -- their men. -- Nathaniel Fick
The Marine Corps taught me that I could achieve my goals. In short, the Marines made me believe in myself. -- Gregory Alan Williams
Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France. -- Garry Kasparov
Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine. -- Clint Walker
An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy. -- James Mattis
God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours. -- Stanley Kubrick
I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps. -- Leon Uris
When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with. -- Josh Mandel
Here's to the drunken Marine With beer in his canteen! You've heard of the Unknown Soldier But, never an unknown Marine! -- John Ripley
What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most. -- Jodi Picoult
Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer any more. Not the whiskey drinking Indian, nor the Marine that went to war. -- Johnny Cash
My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant. -- Susana Martinez
As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me. -- Oliver North
I got a little bit of the Marine mentality from my dad, I guess. You can't but help absorb the culture you're around. -- Robbie Lawler
There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go. -- Chesty Puller
Cheech [Marine] on the other hand, met [Barack] Obama and he knew right away who Cheech was. So that should tell you something. -- Tommy Chong
My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis. -- Jim Lehrer
All Marines, sailors and civilian Marines, regardless of sexual orientation, are Marines first. Every Marine is a valued member of our war-fighting team. -- James F. Amos
I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language, which I used in my letter of Aug 29 to Congress McDonough concerning the Marine Corps... -- Harry S. Truman
If you'd have asked me when I was auditioning for High School Musical if I ever thought I was going to play a Marine... -- Zac Efron
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
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
Marine scientists predict that by 2050 there will be no more large fish left in the ocean if we don't change our relationship with the sea. -- Greg MacGillivray
We're really talking about the Army and Marine Corps here for almost all these ground combat jobs. They want to move in a careful, deliberate manner. -- Renee Montagne
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
Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam. -- R. Lee Ermey
The Marine Corps is proud of the fact that it is a force of combined arms, and it jealously guards the integrity of its air-ground team. -- Keith B. McCutcheon
Marijuana at the time we were making movies [with Cheech Marine] was not that readily available and I do prefer to be coherent when I am working. -- Tommy Chong
Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked. -- Michael Winter
We will build a Marine Corps based on 36 battalions, which the Heritage Foundation notes is the minimum needed to deal with major contingencies. Right now we only have 23. -- Donald Trump
Elemis Pro-Collagen Marine Cream - I think it's fantastic. The same girl has been doing my make-up for 12 years and she says my skin's never looked so good. -- Gaby Roslin
They say "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." In the Marine Corps, you can make that horse wish to hell he had. -- Fred Larson
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
I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. 'Can you be a cop?' Sure. 'Can you be a Marine?' Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie. -- Henry Rollins
I am a Marine Corps veteran, but more importantly - or as important maybe - I'm the chairman of the Oversight Investigation Subcommittee and the House Veterans Affair Committee. -- Mike Coffman
The Navy-Marine Corps team is unique in history because its mobility and versatility permit it to make a contribution in virtually every medium of warfare: land, sea and air. -- John S. McCain, Jr.
I have learned two important lessons from my association with the Marine Corps: always be on time and always be ready to do what is required when you get there. -- Ed McMahon
You have to be forward-moving and able to balance a lot of things at the same time. I attribute a lot of that to the Marine Corps and Juilliard both. -- Adam Driver
We have Trumpist (ph) tendencies in Europe. Look up Marine Le Pen in France. Look at the Five Star Movement headed by a clown by profession, Beppe Grillo, in Italy. -- Lionel Barber
Marine and Army women have deployed with infantry units in Iraq and Afghanistan in what's called female engagement teams, going into villages, talking with women and sometimes coming under fire. -- Renee Montagne
Specifically, the part where in the early 19th century America reconstituted the U.S. Marine Corps to battle the Islamic Barbary Pirates, though I don't think that's what Obama meant. -- Barack Obama
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. -- Bernard Law Montgomery
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's. -- Harry S. Truman
I went out to dinner with a Marine last weekend. He looked across the table and he goes, "I could kill you in seven seconds." I go, "I'll just have toast, then." -- Margaret Smith
Two U.S. Marine skeletons guarded the doors. They grinned down at us, rocket-propelled grenade launchers held across their chests. "You know," Grover mumbled, "I bet Hades doesn't have trouble with door-to-door salesman. -- Rick Riordan
When terrorists blew up the Marine barracks in Lebanon, Reagan was frustrated and furious, as Bush was after 9/11. But he didn't stick us in a war in the Middle East with no exit. -- Douglas Brinkley
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
I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.' -- Jesse Ventura
I think I'm going to cry, this is crazy." "No, you're just processing. Go ahead and cry." "I thought men got nervous around crying females." "I'm a Marine, remember? We're trained to handle anything. -- Jayne Ann Krentz
Just being in the military, you're so violent. We got into fights about just random things all the time. I don't think as aggressively as I did when I was in the Marine Corps. -- Adam Driver
You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did. -- R. Lee Ermey
I went straight from the Marine Corps to the MFA. The way that you would express things among Marines is somewhat different than the way you're supposed to express things in a creative-writing workshop. -- Phil Klay
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
Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, todays Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators. -- Zell Miller
Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators. -- Zell Miller
When I was in Marine training I memorised 'The Waste Land,' which was a significant experience in terms of really breaking apart language and thinking about how the different voices in that poem function. -- Phil Klay
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
I'm a conservative because I believe in peace - real peace, not just the peace of mind. I'm a conservative because we understand that real peace comes from the Marine Corps, not the Peace Corps. -- Allen West
I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It's one of the best things I've had a chance to do. -- Adam Driver
I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley. -- Douglass North
In the Marine Corps, you meet this really broad segment of the country; you're working with people from all kinds of backgrounds. And it exposes you to the American military, particularly the American military at war. -- Phil Klay

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