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Get off your butt and join the Marines! -- John Wayne
Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem. -- Ronald Reagan
Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test. -- Drew Carey
The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job. -- Drew Carey
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 have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world! -- Douglas MacArthur
The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name. -- Drew Carey
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
The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier. They get up every morning, they want to dig a hole, and they want to kill something. -- Thomas P.M. Barnett
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
If you ask me why I've succeeded, it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds. -- Brian McDermott
I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century. -- Oliver North
I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train. -- Hayden Fry
The Marines in Korea never feared 'friendly fire' or artillery coming from the South Koreans - from their allies - like they did later in Vietnam, fighting with the South Vietnamese. The Koreans could be trusted. -- David Douglas Duncan
Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less. -- Allen West
Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation. -- Robin Hayes
Anytime you're going to take your Marines into harm's way, they are looking for leadership that is calm, assertive, sure of themselves. And quite honestly, I don't think that some of these young Marines care if it's a male or a female. They just want to be properly led. -- Loretta Reynolds
Tell that to the Marines! -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cowards cut and run, Marines never do. -- Jean Schmidt
...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Ali. -- Chuck Wepner
A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons. -- David Dixon Porter
The more Marines I have around, the better I like it. -- Wesley Clark
The Marines have landed and the situation is well in hand. -- Richard Harding Davis
Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines". -- Chesty Puller
I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines. -- Jim Lehrer
Thomas Jefferson creates the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening. -- Glenn Beck
I'm relieved that the state of the Marines' readiness will remain high. -- Susan Davis
The Marines don't have any race problems. They treat everybody like they're black. -- Daniel James, Jr.
They love us everywhere we go. So when in doubt, send the Marines. -- Tom Lehrer
Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice! -- Margaret Thatcher
When John Murtha, for example, said the Marines are killing innocent civilians in cold blood. -- George W. Bush
One hundred and twenty Marines were detailed to officer a force of twenty-six hundred Haitians. -- Smedley Butler
In the Navy, there is no wrong hole. In the Marines, there is always a hole. -- George Carlin
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. -- Ronald Reagan
The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services. -- Jim Lehrer
In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like. -- John Naisbitt
Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression. -- Margaret Thatcher
We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property. -- Theodore Roosevelt
With 300 Marines you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely. -- Marcus Luttrell
I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines. -- Dan Dailey
Marines die, that's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means YOU live forever. -- Phil Hartman
...let men express the intense admiration, which I share with all other Americans, of the record made by the Marines. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The Marine Corps taught me that I could achieve my goals. In short, the Marines made me believe in myself. -- Gregory Alan Williams
For over 221 years our Corps has done two things for this great Nation. We make Marines, and we win battles. -- Charles C. Krulak
If we're going to spend more money, it should go to the soldiers, Marines, and airmen to increase their salaries. -- David Hunt
Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with. -- Bob Hope
Why wouldn't female Marines come forward? Because they don't trust us. They don't trust the command. They don't trust the leadership. -- James F. Amos
Marines and soldiers don't issue themselves orders; they don't send themselves overseas. United States citizens elect the leaders who send us overseas. -- Phil Klay
I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them. -- Robert Smith
I placed the Marines where the hardest work was to be accomplished, and I never once found my confidence in them misplaced. -- Winfield Scott
I think of the U.S. Marines like we used to think of the Foreign Legion; as big mouths with big hearts. -- Catherine Leroy
Combat is my profession and fighting was a great way to maintain a combat mindset while preparing to lead Marines in war. -- Brian Stann
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
After I left the Marines in '46, I wanted to stay in the Marines; I was very happy - I loved that life. -- David Douglas Duncan
We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military prowess. -- James L. Jones
Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training. -- David Hunt
My mom was the poster girl for the Marines. So she was in the poster saying, "I want you." My parents were both Marines. -- Jon Bon Jovi
I joined the Marines the week I turned 17, and that led to a few experiences that might qualify as adventure - eye of the beholder. -- Daniel Woodrell
I still need Marines who can shoot and salute. But I need Marines who can fix jet engines and man sophisticated radar sets, as well. -- Robert E. Cushman, Jr.
Marines are very good at fighting... And if Gen. Franks wants fighters on the ground and he puts Marines in, he'll have what he wants. -- Peter Pace
At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution, -- James F. Cooper
Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines. -- John J. Pershing
I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war. -- Phil Klay
I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or Marines. -- RJ Mitte
Judging by the hard lines of his face and the flat look in his eyes, he'd left the Marines, but the Corps hadn't quite left him. -- Ilona Andrews
The American Marines have it [pride], and benefit from it. They are tough, cocky, sure of themselves and their buddies. They can fight and they know it. -- Mark W. Clark
Yes, Marines are down in jungle land and they did kill a man in a war, and a great many people did not know anything about it. -- Earl Hancock Ellis
...The Marines have been the first to land-on embattled beaches throughout the world-we share the unfaltering confidence of all Americans that they will land again-and land hard. -- Herbert F. Leary
MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDNâ??T SAVEâ??Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them. -- Chris Kyle
President Reagan was concerned - deeply concerned, emotionally concerned - with the loss of life of any American, but especially with the lives of military soldiers, Marines, navy. -- Robert McFarlane
...Since 1775 the United States Marines have upheld a fine tradition of service to their country. They are doing so today. I am confident they will continue to do so. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
You want to know who's now running the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the Marines and calling the shots where it counts? Fundamentalist Muslims and homosexual activists. -- Bryan Fischer
Since the Cuban Revolution and since the invasion of Santo Domingo a state of emergency has existed in Latin America. The Marines shoot at anything that moves, regardless of partyaffiliation. -- Regis Debray
The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This isn't just an issue for the U.S. and Japan. It has regional implications. -- Ed Royce
I liked being in the Marines. They gave me discipline I could live with. By the time I got out, I was able to cope with things on a more realistic level. -- Steve McQueen
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
This particular school of Zen has always considered itself the Marines of the spiritual world, so it has a kind of bias against conceptual thinking in favor of a very rigorous physical life. -- Leonard Cohen
We are acknowledging the close personal nature of our 10 years at war and the strong bonds of fidelity that Marines have for one another, especially for those fellow Marines who we have lost. -- James F. Amos
When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I guess, But first send the Marines! -- Tom Lehrer
The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally. -- Mark Udall
In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Everyone of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers. -- Chris Kyle
I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. -- Smedley Butler
We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on? -- John W. Vessey, Jr.
I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe. -- Hampton Sides
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
I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century." -- Oliver North
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
My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself. -- Samaire Armstrong
A lot of the great pieces of journalism from Iraq showed how important command influence was in violent, aggressive environments, where Marines and soldiers had a constrained set of choices to make in sudden moments. -- Phil Klay
I was a public affairs officer. I worked with the media, but I didn't just stay at my desk. I assisted in military duties, travelled around Anbar province, hung out with a wide variety of Marines. -- Phil Klay
From an early age I was aware of what America meant, and how the Marines at Camp Pendleton were ready to defend us at a moment's notice. I also remember what fabulous bodies those troops had. -- Heather Locklear
It's kind of funny to read the work of ex-Marines and soldiers because what they said to me as a reporter was only a fraction of what they were thinking and feeling and saying to one another. -- George Packer
Your Marines having been under my command for nearly six months, I feel that I can give you a discriminating report as to their excellent standing with their brothers of the army and their general good conduct. -- John J. Pershing
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
I got to travel around Anbar Province, had a great group of Marines who worked for me who traveled around Anbar Province. I got to hang out with a lot of different types of Marines and soldiers and sailors. -- Phil Klay
I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job. -- Gene Hackman
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
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
But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess. -- Stuart Symington
We all know that Washington families are making a tremendous commitment to winning the War on Terror. Tonight, more than 22,000 Washington state soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are risking their lives under hostile fire in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the globe. -- Patty Murray
I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines operated on three continents. -- Michael Parenti
We now have a lack of readiness that is quite scary. We have planes that were - that Harry Truman inaugurated, the B-52. We have - the Navy has been gutted and decimated. The readiness of the Marines is way down. -- Jeb Bush
We didn't see what happen when Marines fired M-16s... We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage? -- Ashleigh Banfield
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. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years. -- Larry Elder
Hillary Clinton will travel to Vietnam with the president this Friday. It's a fact that at the height of the war in 1971, she tried to enlist in the Marines, but they turned her down. Apparently we weren't that mad at the Viet Cong. -- Argus Hamilton
Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean. They're aggressive on the attack and tenacious on defense. They've got really short hair and they always go for the throat. -- Rodney Stark
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
But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations. -- Patricia Richardson
We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit. -- George S. Patton
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
My parents were divorced and my dad was in the Marines. I lived in California until I was 10 then we moved to Bettendorf, Iowa when I was in the fourth grade. I had an older brother so it made it a little easier to adjust to things. -- Robbie Lawler
The Marines already have started putting women through infantry training. They've done it for the past couple of years. And it's tough. Roughly one-third of women have made it through that infantry training. So you're not going to see a lot of women actually make it through this. -- Renee Montagne
Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our Nation, will be in great shape for a long time to come as these people continue to grow and assume greater positions of responsibility. -- James T. Conway
Let us remember with devotion that the flag we love and honor is the flag of freedom that flew in victory at Yorktown, the flag the United States Marines raised on Mount Suribachi, the flag Francis Scott Key saw by the dawn's early light. Long may it wave. -- Ronald Reagan
The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The United States Marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base which is as necessary to us in our continuing forward movement toward final victory as it was vital to the enemy in staving off ultimate defeat. -- Chester W. Nimitz
I met Mel [Brooks] backstage in Anne's [Bancroft] dressing room. He was wearing one of those pea coats, pea jackets that were made famous by the Merchant Marines, and I admired it and he said, "You know, they used to call this a urine jacket, but it didn't sell." -- Gene Wilder
If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could have taken part in the drill display by the Guards or Marines or at the Royal Tournament turn that strength and precision to the service of life. -- Rebecca West
Look, many of us here are regular marines... I will die as a marine because that is my dream. -- Jerry Jones
Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely. -- Lane Evans
The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown. -- Bruce Springsteen

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