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Marine Corp Quotes

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

Spread the gospel that the Marine Corps is a force that has changed. We're not in 1942 anymore.
- James F Amos

There's a mindset of flexibility and adaptability that comes with us. We don't mind hardship. We don't mind somebody saying, 'Go in and do this nasty job.' Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps.
- James F Amos

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

I always equate wrestling to having been in the Marine Corps.
- William Baldwin

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.
- Robert Kiyosaki

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

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

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.
- R Lee Ermey

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

Just remember,' a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel told me as he strapped his pistol belt under his arm before we crossed into Kuwait, 'that none of these boys is fighting for home, for the flag, for all that crap the politicians feed the public. They are fighting for each other, just for each other.
- Chris Hedges

Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.
- Harvey Keitel

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

Shouldering the duffel bag with the Marine Corps bulldog, Old Man knocked Jan's photo off the bed table. He turned to stone staring down at the photo. His face then splintered into hurt. Tears seeped into his eyes. He grappled for the nearest bedpost and slumped forward on extended arms. His shoulders jerked and head sagged a little while his heart broke. Old Man cried the mute cry of men of his generation.
- Ed Lynskey

As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I only know what's been shared with me; confidences I would never betray, nor use as details in a novel.
- Tiffany Madison

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

My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.
- Susana Martinez

We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.
- John M Mchugh

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

In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
- Ralph Peters

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

In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches
do the right thing, for the right reason
no exception exists that says: unless there's criticism or risk. Damn the consequences.
- Josh Rushing

War is brutish, inglorious, and a terrible waste... The only redeeming factors were my comrades' incredible bravery and their devotion to each other. Marine Corps training taught us to kill efficiently and to try to survive. But it also taught us loyalty to each other - and love. That espirit de corps sustained us.
- Eugene B Sledge

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.
- Lee Trevino

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish.
- Leon Uris

I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.
- Leon Uris

You know what happens when you get out of the Marine Corps," Person continues. "you get you brains back.
- Evan Wright

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