Beurteaux Marine Quotes

Demonstrate to the world there is 'No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy' than a U.S. Marine. ~ James Mattis

The Marines have landed and the situation is well in hand. ~ Richard Harding Davis

Marines die, that's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means YOU live forever. ~ Phil Hartman

If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war. ~ Douglas MacArthur

I can never again see a UNITED STATES MARINE without experiencing a feeling of reverence. ~ Edward Johnson

Heroism is endurance for one moment more. ~ George F. Kennan

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world! ~ Douglas MacArthur

A Marine likes a good fight and respects a good fighter. You've got yourself one fine Marine for an escort and the whole Marine Corps behind you. ~ Bud Rudesill

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. ~ James F. Amos

Ensure that no Marine who honorably wore the eagle, globe and anchor is lost to the Marine Corps family. ~ James L. Jones

The American Marines have it [pride], and benefit from it. They are tough, cocky, sure of themselves and their buddies. They can fight and they know it. ~ Mark W. Clark

Goddamn it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me! ~ Henry Pierson Crowe

The Marine Corps ... took a boy and made him a man. ~ Ed Bearss

We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military prowess. ~ James L. Jones

Their brilliant audio expert, who is a marine biologist, should really be looking after Flipper ~ Rob Halford

I still need Marines who can shoot and salute. But I need Marines who can fix jet engines and man sophisticated radar sets, as well. ~ Robert E. Cushman, Jr.

Here's to the drunken Marine
With beer in his canteen!
You've heard of the Unknown Soldier
But, never an unknown Marine! ~ John Ripley

Semper Fi! MotherFucker! ~ U.S. Marine Corps

I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.' Yeah, I'm sure it would be just that smooth. ~ Cobie Smulders

Let those other women marry bankers. I've got myself a Marine. ~ Mollie Gross

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 can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had. ~ Art Buchwald

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

We're really talking about the Army and Marine Corps here for almost all these ground combat jobs. They want to move in a careful, deliberate manner. ~ Renee Montagne

I served two tours in Iraq, in the Marine Corps. ~ Josh Mandel

Any officer can get by on his sergeants. To be a sergeant you have to know your stuff. I'd rather be an outstanding sergeant than just another officer. ~ Daniel Daly

Once a marine, always a marine,' he tells me. 'And marines never god-damn quit. ~ Mila Gray

We should never lose sight of the ethos that has made the Marine Corps - where 'every Marine is a rifleman' - one of America's cherished institutions and one of the world's most feared and respected fighting forces ~ Robert M. Gates

The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing. ~ Karl Marlantes

In the last analysis, what the Marine Corps becomes is what we make of it during our respective watches. And that watch of each Marine is not confined to the time he spends on active duty. It last as long as he is "proud to bear the title of United States Marine." ~ Louis H. Wilson, Jr.

After about 25 medals, you run out of shoulder to put them on. ~ George S. Day

Improvise, Adapt and Overcome" - USMC, unofficial ~ U.S. Marine Corps

Pain is Weekness Leaving the Body ~ U.S. Marine Corps

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

I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps. ~ Frederick W. Smith

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

Better and Stronger ~ The Marine Corps

Naomi noted in closing that Britain had one of the "most staunchly conservation-oriented publics ... they are strongly antiwhaling ... they are an island nation who feel they must protect the marine environment." Yet there were zero cetacean displays left in the UK. "Clearly they are getting their marine education, their marine ethic, from some other source. ~ David Kirby

Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it. ~ Walter Scott

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. ~ Joshua J. Marine

I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps. ~ Jonathan Winters

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

The aim of every woman is to be truly integrated into the Corps. She is able and willing to undertake any assignment consonant with Marine Corps needs, and is proudest of all that she has no nickname. She is a "Marine." ~ Katherine Amelia Towle

In the final analysis luck is more important than skill. But any Marine who relies on luck to accomplish his mission is a dead Marine. ~ David Sherman

No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal. ~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau

I'm as deadly as a marine, when compared to marine plant life. It took lots of water, sunlight, and standing still to get this badass. ~ Jarod Kintz

Democrats have chosen not to defend the Marine Corps, but to pander to anti-war protesters and Berkeley officials that are actively trying to impede military recruitment. ~ Jim DeMint

When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything. ~ Adam Driver

I wanted to be able to say I was a Marine. ~ Loretta Reynolds

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

I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon. ~ Douglas MacArthur

An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy. ~ James Mattis

Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine. ~ Clint Walker

WARRIORS BY DAY, LOVERS BY NIGHT, PROFESSIONALS BY CHOICE, AND MARINES BY THE GRACE OF GOD. ~ U.S. Marine Corps

If you're a soldier or marine in an Arab country, Islam is the solution. And you need to show respect. ~ David Brooks

I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them. ~ Robert Smith

The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain. ~ Philip Caputo

I selected an enormous Marine Corps emblem to be tattooed across my chest. It required several sittings and hurt me like the devil, but the finished product was worth the pain. I blazed triumphantly forth, a Marine from throat to waist. The emblem is still with me. Nothing on earth but skinning will remove it. ~ Smedley Butler

Fleets cannot operate without bases. ~ John A. Lejeune

A distracted marine is a dead marine, ~ Cynthia Sax

Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed. ~ Chesty Puller

Ocean energy can contribute a great deal toward the protection or our atmosphere - without damaging marine ecosystems that are equally vital to the planet's future. ~ Fred Krupp

The Marines don't have any race problems. They treat everybody like they're black. ~ Daniel James, Jr.

This is my voice. There are many like it, but this one is mine. ~ Shane Koyczan

It does not pay to be friendly with officers, they take advantage of you. ~ William Overgard

What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts?
The Boy Scouts have adult leadership. ~ Michael Herr

Globalization means using slaves to manufacture products that are then sold to the unemployed! ~ Marine Le Pen

Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market. ~ Dana Rohrabacher

In the Marine Corps, your buddy is not only your classmate or fellow officer, but he is also the Marine under your command. If you don't prepare yourself to properly train him, lead him, and support him on the battlefield, then you're going to let him down. That is unforgivable in the Marine Corps. ~ Chesty Puller

If I wasn't a writer, I don't know what I'd be. Probably a marine biologist or something. ~ Jeff VanderMeer

Once a Marine, always a Marine. ~ Katie Reus

Water is the basis of life and the blue arteries of the earth! Everything in the non-marine environment depends on freshwater to survive. ~ Sandra Postel

Marine protected areas, and particularly no-take zones, are very effective in allowing regeneration of fish stocks. ~ Helen Clark

The Marine Corps taught me that I could achieve my goals. In short, the Marines made me believe in myself. ~ Gregory Alan Williams

What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most. ~ Jodi Picoult

Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation ~ Jean-Marie Le Pen

I like the blues ... but I like aqua marine just as much. ~ Don Van Vliet

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps. ~ R. Lee Ermey

It is my responsibility to make sure that the fear is overcome ... This attack must instead free our speech about Islamic fundamentalism. We must not be silenced. ~ Marine Le Pen

I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing. ~ Freema Agyeman

As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home. ~ Frances Beinecke

I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. ~ Smedley Butler

A person cannot be a Marine without honor. ~ Carl Epting Mundy, Jr.

Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology. ~ Arne Duncan

What we have now - a world without [marine] reserves - is like a debit account where we withdraw all the time and we never make any deposit. Reserves are like savings accounts. ~ Enric Sala

If I charge, follow me. If I retreat, kill me. If I die, revenge me. ~ U.S. Marine Corps

They are a fairly aggressive conservation organization that was started to protect the great whales particularly, but in general all marine life around the world. So those are the people I'm trying to attach my name to. ~ Richard Dean Anderson

We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

The world's finest wilderness lies beneath the waves ... ~ Robert Wyland

Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer any more. Not the whiskey drinking Indian, nor the Marine that went to war. ~ Johnny Cash

I don't think that there's any Marine out there that says she can't do the job because she's a female. ~ Loretta Reynolds

The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy. ~ Sheldon Whitehouse

I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: if you fuck with me I'll kill you all. ~ Marine General James Mattis

The Marine Corps has just been called by the New York Times, 'The elite of this country.' I think it is the elite of the world. ~ William Halsey

I always thought I would be a marine biologist because I love the sea - but considering the fact that I've always loved acting and the theater, I don't think I ever gave anything else much of a chance. ~ Renee O'Connor

I liked being in the Marines. They gave me discipline I could live with. By the time I got out, I was able to cope with things on a more realistic level. ~ Steve McQueen

In 1950 a Marine Corps officer was still an officer, and a sergeant behaved the way good sergeants had behaved since the time of Caesar, expecting no nonsense, allowing none. And Marine leaders had never lost sight of their primary - their only - mission, which was to fight. The Marine Corps was not made pleasant for men who served in it. It remained the same hard, dirty, brutal way of life it had always been. ~ T.R. Fehrenbach

They say "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." In the Marine Corps, you can make that horse wish to hell he had. ~ Fred Larson

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