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*    "Semper Fidelis!" (Always faithful)

*    "Oooorrrrrahhhhhhhh!!!!!

*    "Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."    -President Ronald Reagan, 1985

*    "Retreat, Hell!  We just got here!"    -Captain Lloyd Williams, USMC

*    "Once a Marine, always a Marine."

*    "One shot, one kill."

*    "Tell that to the Marines!"

*    "Send in the Marines."

*    "The Marines have landed and the situation is well at hand."

*    "I will never surrender of my own free will.  If in command I will never surrender my men while they still have the means to resist."

*    "You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em."

*    "The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his." - General S Patton

*    "The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle."

*    "We're not retreating!  Hell, we're just attacking from a different direction!"

*    "Death before dishonor."

*    "Marines don't plan, they improvise."

*    "The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war!"

*    "Pain is your friend, it lets you know when you are seriously injured, it will keep you awake at night, and most important it lets you know you are still alive."

*    "We took the eagle from the Army; the anchor from the Navy; and on the seventh day when God rested, we ran over his perimeter and took the world!"

*    "Marines don't die!  They just go to hell to regroup!"

*    "We're surrounded!  That simplifies the problem!"    -General Chesty Puller

*    "Sweat dries, blood clots, and bones heal; suck it up!  Be a Marine!"

*    "If the Army and the Navy ever look on Heaven's scenes, they will find the gates are guarded by United States Marines!" (I guess that could be Starfleet Marines in the 24th century!)

*    "Another glorious day to serve the Corps!"

*    "You can take a man from the Corps, but you can never take the Corps from a man!"

*    "Semper Fidelis is our creed, Marine Corps is our breed."

*    "Good night Chesty Puller... wherever you are!!!!"

*    "I have returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!"    -General Douglas MacArthur, US Army

*    "The battle of Iwo Jima has been won. Among the Marines who served on Iwo, uncommon valor was a common virtue."    -Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

*    "The man who will go where his colors will go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in a jungle and mountain range, without counting, and who will suffer and die in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he has always been, from Imperial Rome to sceptered Britain to Democratic America. He is the stuff of which legions are made.
His pride is his colors and his regiment, his training hard and thorough and coldly realistic, to fit him for what he must face, and his obedience is to his orders.  As a legionary, he held the gates of civilization for the classical world...he has been called United States Marine."    -Lieutenant Colonel T.R. Fehrenbach, US Army in "This Kind of War"

*    "Marines are about the most peculiar breed of human beings I have ever witnessed. They treat their service as if it was some kind of cult, plastering their emblem on almost everything they own, making themselves up to look like insane fanatics with
haircuts to ungentlemanly lengths, worshipping their Commandant almost as if he was a god, and making weird animal noises like a band of savages. They'll fight like rabid dogs at the drop of a hat just for the sake of a little action, and are the cockiest SOB's I have ever known. Most have the foulest mouths and drink well beyond man's normal limits, but their high spirits and sense of brotherhood set them apart and, generally speaking, of the United States Marines I've come in contact with, are the most professional soldiers and the finest men I have had the pleasure to meet."    -Anonymous Canadian Citizen

*    "Old breed?  New breed?  There's not a damn bit of difference as long as it's the Marine breed!"    -Lieutenant General Lewis "Chesty" Puller

*     "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."                -George Orwell

*    "The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle!"    -General Pershing, US Army

*    "The more Marines I have around me, the better I like it!"    -General Mark Clark, US Army

*    "You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em!"    -Lieutenant General Chesty Puller

*    "Being ready is not what matters.  What matters is winning after you get there!"    -Lieutenant General Krulak, USMC

*    "C'mon you bastards, do you want to live forever?"    -GySgt Dan Daly, USMC

*    "To ERR is human, to FORGIVE is divine.  HOWEVER, neither is Marine Corps Policy."

*    "The Marines have landed, and the situation is well at hand."    -Richard Harding Davis, (1885) War Correspondent

*    "This will be the bloodiest fight in Marine Corps history. We'll catch seven kinds of hell on the beaches, and that will be just the beginning. The fighting will be fierce, and the casualties will be awful, but my Marines will take the damned island." (concerning the upcoming attack on Iwo Jima)    -Lieutenant General Smith, USMC

*    "Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was...What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left to dedicate our cemetery at the end, or whether the last Marine would die knocking out the last Japanese gun and gunner." (In reference to the Battle of Iwo Jima)    -Major General Erskine, USMC

*    "The raising of that flag means Marine Corps for the next 500 years!" (Concerning the flag raising at Mount Suribachi)    -James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy

*    "Casualties many; percentage of dead not known; combat efficiency: we are winning!"    -Colonel Shoup, USMC

*    "I can never again see a United States Marine without experiencing a feeling of reverence!"    -General Johnson, US Army

*    "We have two companies of Marines running all over this island and thousands of Army troops doing nothing!"    -General Vessey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff