"Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of people successfully." - John A. Lejeune
"Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there." - Lieutenant General Victor H. Krulak
"You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em." - Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller
"Retreat Hell! We're just attacking in another direction." - Major General Oliver P. Smith
"Goddamn it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!" - Captain Henry P. "Jim" Crowe
"Come on, you sons of bitches-do you want to live forever?" - Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly
"Once a Marine, always a Marine!" - MSgt Paul Woyshner
"I can't say enough about the two Marine divisions. If I use words like brilliant, it would really be an under description of the absolutely superb job they did in breaching the so called impenetrable barrier. " - General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. Army
"I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world." -General Douglas MacArthur, U.S. Army
"Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning." - Colonel David M. Shoup
"The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle!" - General Pershing, U.S. Army
"Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking!" -Ferdinand Foch
"We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem!" - General Chesty Puller
"The more MARINES I have around the better I like it!" General Mark Clarlk, U.S. Army
"I want you boys to hurry up and whip these Germans so we can get out to the Pacific to kick the shit out of the purple-pissing Japanese, before the Goddamned MARINES get all the credit!" - Lt General George Patton, U.S. Army
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." George Orwell
"Sometimes it is entirely appropriate to kill a fly with a sledge-hammer!" - Major Holdredge
"A ship without MARINES is like a garment without buttons." - Adm. David Porter, USN
"The MARINES have landed and have the situation well in hand!" Richard Harding Davis
"I can never again see a UNITED STATES MARINE without experiencing a feeling of reverence." - General Johnson, U.S. Army
"The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a MARINE CORPS for the next 500 years." - James Forrestal, Secretary Of The Navy
"Teufelhunde! (Devil Dogs)" - German Soldiers, WWI at Belleau Wood
"So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those bastards won't get away this time!" - General Chesty Puller
"The safest place in Korea was right behind a platoon of MARINES. LORD, how they could fight!" - Major General Frank Lowe, U.S. Army
"Panic sweeps my men when they are facing the AMERICAN MARINES." - Captured North Korean Major
"Our Country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any AMERICA because some foreign soldier will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!" - General Lewis "Chesty" Puller
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem." President Ronald Reagan
"Marines know how to use their bayonets. Army bayonets may as well be paper-weights." Navy Times, November 1994
"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." - General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, US Army
"The United States Marine Corps, with it fiercely proud tradition of excellence in combat, its hallowed rituals, and its unbending code of honor, is part of the fabric of American myth." - Thomas E. Ricks
"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."- Adm. "Jay" R. Stark, USN
"They told (us) to open up the Embassy, or "we'll blow you away." And then they looked up and saw the Marines on the roof with these really big guns, and they said in Somali, "Igaralli ahow," which means "Excuse me, I didn't mean it, my mistake."- Karen Aquilar, in the U.S. Embassy; Mogadishu, Somalia, 1991
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