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"The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle" General Pershing, US Army.
"Hard pressed on my right, My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking!" Ferdinand Foch.
"So they've got us surrounded. Good. That simplifies the problem! Now we can fire in any direction, those bastards won't get away this time!" Chesty Puller, USMC.
"The more Marines I have around the better I like it!" General Mark Clark, US Army.
"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!" Admiral David Porter, USN.
"The Marines have landed and have the situation well in hand!" Richard Harding Davis.
"Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency: We are winning!" Colonel David M. Shoup, USMC
"I can never again see a United States Marine without experiencing a feeling of reverence." General Johnson, US Army.
"The raising of the flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years." James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy.
"Come on you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?" Gunnery Sgt. Daniel Daly, USMC
"We're not retreating, Hell! We're just attacking in a different direction!" General Oliver Smith, USMC
"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, US Army
"Teufelhunden! (Devil Dog)" Nickname given by German Soldiers, WW1 at Belleau Wood.
"We have two companies of Marines running all over this island and thousands of Army troops doing nothing!" General John Vessey, Chairman of Joint Chiefs (About Grenada).
"Retreat hell! We just got here!" Captain Lloyd Williams, USMC.
"The safest place in Korea was right behind a platoon of Marines. Lord, how they could fight!"
"Panic sweeps my men when they are facing the American Marines." Captured North Korean Major.
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem." President Ronald Reagan.
"Marines are about the most peculiar breed of human beings I have ever witnessed. They treat their service as if it were some kind of cult, plastering their emblem on almost everything they own, making themselves up to look like insane fanatics with haircuts ungentlemanly short, worshipping their Commandant almost as if he were a god, and making weird animal noises like a band of savages. They will 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 a man's normal limits. But, their high spirits and sense of brotherhood set them apart and generally speaking the United States Marines I have come in contact with are the most professional soldiers and the finest men I have had the pleasure to meet." Anonymous Canadian Citizen 1969.
"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, 1945.
"THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS... is over 225 years of romping, stomping, hell, death and destruction. The finest fighting machine the world has ever seen. We were born in a Bomb Crater, Our Mother was an M-16 & Our Father was the Devil. Each moment that I live is an additional threat upon your life. I am a rough looking, roving soldier of the sea. I am cocky, self-centered, overbearing, and do not know the meaning of fear, for I am fear itself. I am a green amphibious monster, made of blood and guts, who arose from the sea, feasting on anti-Americans throughout the globe. Whenever it may arise, and when my time comes, I will die a glorious death on the battlefield, giving my life for Mom, the Corps, and the American Flag. We stole the eagle from the Air Force, the anchor from the Navy, and the rope from the Army. On the 7th day, while God rested, we over-ran his perimeter and stole the globe, and we've been running the show ever since. We live like soldiers and talk like sailors and slap the Hell out of both of them. Marine by day, lover by night, drunkard by choice, MARINE BY GOD!!! OORAH!!!"