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There are times when a corps commander's life does not count. — Winfield Scott

Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. — George C. Marshall

For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home. — Phil Klay

I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed. — Sargent Shriver

The Air Corps ... does not, at this time, feel justified in obligating ... funds for basic jet propulsion research and experimentation. — George Brett

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

The Marine Corps recruits people who share the corps' values, then provides them with the training required to — James C. Collins

The Corps does more with less than anyone else on the planet, so they always get less to do more with. — Evan Currie

I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps. — Robert Gossett

Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps. — James F. Amos

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

Who does Bill Clinton think got off the boat and stepped on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers? — P. J. O'Rourke

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

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

As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing — Glenn Greenwald

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

I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said.
"Well," I replied, "it's certainly better than War Corps. — Erich Segal

No one is excluded from the astronaut corps based on penis size. — Mary Roach

The cost of leadership," explains Lieutenant General George Flynn of the United States Marine Corps, "is self-interest. — Simon Sinek

I had never imagined myself, nor aspired to be, a member of a royal family. I wanted to be in the Peace Corps, not a princess! — Queen Noor Of Jordan

I used to take culinary arts at Job Corps so I'm a certified chef. I could cook chicken alfredo. — Gorilla Zoe

Walk your own path and be yourself — Joanne Nussbaum

The Marine Corps is your family too. You may not have a mother here, but you have a shit pile of fathers, uncles, and brothers. — Bud Rudesill

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people — Wendell Phillips

We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers. — Cecile Richards

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

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

I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps. — Phil Klay

Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share. — John Ringo

Reader, you have the will to overcome great confusion. Welcome to the Philosophy Corps. — Leonard Finkelman

The Corps has always believed that the most powerful weapon its people possesses is between their ears. — Tanya Huff

If you're not former military, join the Marine Corps. — Chet Richards

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

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

How do you think poetry helps people? he'd ask, wanting the whole thing quantified so he could compare it to digging wells in the Peace Corps. — Paul Monette

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity. — Paul Theroux

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

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

In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems. — Sargent Shriver

I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii. — Louis Zamperini

Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State. — John Culberson

I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language, which I used in my letter of Aug 29 to Congress McDonough concerning the Marine Corps ... — Harry S. Truman

The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years. — James Forrestal

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

Beaver do better work than the Corps of Engineers. — Mike Todd

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

Members of every major street gang, outlaw biker, and domestic extremist group have been found in a number of military branches. — Carter F. Smith

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

You have to be forward-moving and able to balance a lot of things at the same time. I attribute a lot of that to the Marine Corps and Juilliard both. — Adam Driver

There must be a corps that will battle for righteousness, for there are endless battalions who serve unrighteousness. — Janet Morris

More likely, they would just cease to exist."
"That's death."
"No, it's different. Death leaves a corps. — Dean Koontz

That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps. — F. E. Adcock

Tell that to the Marines! — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Show me a hero and I'll show you a bum. — Gregory Boyington

To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that? — Richard D. Wolff

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

I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945. — Bobby Thomson

In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans. — Solomon Ortiz

The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it. — Sargent Shriver

All the logic seemed to be on our side. The Marine Corps seemed a madness. — Robert Leckie

The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps. — Alexander Vandegrift

For over 221 years our Corps has done two things for this great Nation. We make Marines, and we win battles. — Charles C. Krulak

I never said I hated the Marine Corps! I only said it was no place for a sensitive, civilized, self-respecting human being. — William Styron

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 was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer. — Chirlane McCray

I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines ... imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the "Old Corps." — Joshua R. Sands

Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings. — Adam Driver

Vigorous public ball scratching is common in the combat-arms side of the Marine Corps, even among high-level officers in the midst of briefings. — Evan Wright

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills. — Frederick W. Smith

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

I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life. — Jim Webb

No one ever drowned in sweat. — U.S. Marine Corps

The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads. — Kelly Miller

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of. — Sebastian Junger

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight. — Sargent Shriver

The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class. — Adam Driver

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

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

The secret to living fully is to find your passion and pursue it. — Ronald Louis Peterson

For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps. — Camryn Manheim

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

I shoulda stayed in Job Corps,
but now I'm an outlaw... — Ghostface Killah

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps. — Peter Ustinov

It is difficult to be a good noncommissioned officer. If it had been easy, they would have given it to the officer corps. — William A. Connelly

In the Envoy Corps, you take what is offered, Virginia Vidaura said, somewhere in the corridors of my memory. And that must sometimes be enough. — Richard K. Morgan

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

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

the best and worst critics I had was in the Marine Corps, If you can share poetry to a bunch of opinionated Marines, you can share with anyone — Vincent Breit

The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world. — Sargent Shriver

There's a tradition of public service in my family. I'm one of three boys that joined the military. My father was in the Peace Corps. — Phil Klay

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

To be or not to be wasn't the question meant; it was the secret answer hidden in riddled defense. — Michael Anthony Gill-Branion

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

A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a corps of instructors. — Simon Newcomb

You can run but you can't hide — Emily Giffin

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

I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was. — Clifton Daniel

It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps. — Edward Kennedy

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

She had died and joined the Marine Corps. Or was God an aging general? Either way, she knew it couldn't be heaven 'cause there was no chocolate. — Clare Dargin