Tag: Marines

Quotes July 26, 2024

“A Marine is a Marine. I set that policy two weeks ago – there’s no such thing as a former Marine. You’re a Marine, just in a different uniform and you’re in a different phase of your life. But you’ll always be a Marine because you went to Parris Island, San Diego or the hills of Quantico. There’s no such thing as a former Marine.”
General James F. Amos
 
 
 
 
“Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‘defeat’.”
Jim Mattis
 
 
 
 
“It was the Marines who taught me how to act. After that, pretending to be rough wasn’t so hard.”
Lee Marvin
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share.”
Ned Dolan
 
 
 
 
“Thousands of Marine combat veterans earned medals for bravery every day. A few were even awarded.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 

Quotes March 29, 2024

“That two battalions of Marines be raised consisting of one colonel, two lieutenant colonels, two majors and officers as usual in other regiments, that they consist of an equal number of privates with other battalions; that particular care be taken that no person be appointed to office or enlisted into said battalions, but such as are good seamen, or so acquainted with maritime affairs as to be able to serve to advantage by sea.”
(Resolution of the Continental Congress, 10 November 1775.)
 
 
 
 
“The Continental ship Providence, now lying at Boston, is bound on a short cruise, immediately; a few good men are wanted to make up her complement.”
(Marine Captain William Jones, Providence Gazette, 20 March 1779.)
 
 
 
 
“A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.”
(Admiral David D. Porter, USN, 1863.)
 
 
 
 
“The Marines have landed and have the situation well in hand.”
(Attributed to many sources and popularized by the correspondent Richard Harding Davis during the late nineteenth-century.)
 
 
 
 
“To our Marines fell the most difficult and dangerous portion of the defense by reason of our proximity to the great city wall and the main city gate. . .The Marines acquitted themselves nobly.”
(Mr. Edwin N. Conger, U.S. Minister, in commending the Marines for the defense of the legations at Peking, China, in 1900.)
 
 

Military February 21, 2020

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