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The Marines,' my dad said, 'will teach you everything I love you too much to teach you. — Nathaniel Fick

Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training. — David Hunt

The difference between a regular Catholic education and a Jesuit education is the difference between the army and the marines. — Gary Reilly

One did not depend on marines for good table manners. One depended on them to have the right instincts when it came to matters of life and death. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

Let men express the intense admiration, which I share with all other Americans, of the record made by the Marines. — Theodore Roosevelt

Get off your butt and join the Marines! — John Wayne

I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or Marines. — RJ Mitte

I think of the U.S. Marines like we used to think of the Foreign Legion; as big mouths with big hearts. — Catherine Leroy

The Marines may have made me a man, but Grace made me human. — Jen Frederick

Your soul may belong to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the marines. — Eugene B. Sledge

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

Everyday US Marines make possible the impossible and then go about their business like it's just the way things are supposed to be. — Mark W. Boyer

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

Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice! — Margaret Thatcher

Marines either know how to use an iron or they get married [ ... ]. The iron is less dangerous. — Madeleine Urban

I was given an opportunity to join the marines instead of go to jail - and I think I made the correct decision. — Huey Morgan

Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem. — Ronald Reagan

I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war. — Phil Klay

Everybody who wants to be in a band should be made to join the marines. — Huey Morgan

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

The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier. They get up every morning, they want to dig a hole, and they want to kill something. — Thomas P.M. Barnett

In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like. — John Naisbitt

MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN'T SAVE - Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them. — Chris Kyle

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

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

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

If you can read the book and say, 'Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!' That's Military Science Fiction." (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012) — Brandon Sanderson

My mom was the poster girl for the Marines. So she was in the poster saying, "I want you." My parents were both Marines. — Jon Bon Jovi

My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. — Larry Elder

America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for. — Sarah Palin

The more Marines I have around, the better I like it. — Wesley Clark

The most important lesson that came out of Vietnam for me was that Marines take care of Marines. — Tom Clancy

I placed the Marines where the hardest work was to be accomplished, and I never once found my confidence in them misplaced. — Winfield Scott

Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines. — John J. Pershing

As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me. — Oliver North

Tell that to the Marines! — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines. — Jim Lehrer

Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test. — Drew Carey

Thomas Jefferson creates the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening. — Glenn Beck

Which goes to show you, right there, the difference between sailors and marines: marines are fucking stupid. Running when you don't have to. — Christopher Moore

The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job. — Drew Carey

I'm relieved that the state of the Marines' readiness will remain high. — Susan Davis

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name. — Drew Carey

They love us everywhere we go. So when in doubt, send the Marines. — Tom Lehrer

Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan

Judging by the hard lines of his face and the flat look in his eyes, he'd left the Marines, but the Corps hadn't quite left him. — Ilona Andrews

If I survived the Marines, I can survive Ali. — Chuck Wepner

The marines gave me an eternal discipline. — Huey Morgan

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

You find surprising things about the privite life of a country when you invide it — Evan Wright

Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines". — Chesty Puller

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

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

The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines. — Dan Dailey

At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution, — James F. Cooper

Her tactics are brutal. The Marines could employ her. — Katie McGarry

To change one's field of influence is to change the course of one's life. — Jenny Reese Clark

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

Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with. — Bob Hope

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem. — Ronald Reagan

If we're going to spend more money, it should go to the soldiers, Marines, and airmen to increase their salaries. — David Hunt

In the Navy, there is no wrong hole. In the Marines, there is always a hole. — George Carlin

We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause ... — Scott Ritter

After I left the Marines in '46, I wanted to stay in the Marines; I was very happy - I loved that life. — David Douglas Duncan

I joined the Marines the week I turned 17, and that led to a few experiences that might qualify as adventure - eye of the beholder. — Daniel Woodrell

Why wouldn't female Marines come forward? Because they don't trust us. They don't trust the command. They don't trust the leadership. — James F. Amos

I became amazed at how much my men would tolerate if someone just took the time to explain the why of it all to them. — Donovan Campbell

When John Murtha, for example, said the Marines are killing innocent civilians in cold blood. — George W. Bush

Raiden deciding to serve our country and doing it by joining the baddest of the badasses, as everyone knew the Marines were. — Kristen Ashley

Hopefully one day Wars will only be fought in movies. And may the best producer win! — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Marines are very good at fighting ... And if Gen. Franks wants fighters on the ground and he puts Marines in, he'll have what he wants. — Peter Pace

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

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

The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services. — Jim Lehrer

I opposed the U.S. involvement in Lebanon. We ended up having to withdraw our marines after our barracks were blown up. — John Kasich

Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression. — Margaret Thatcher

Infantry Marines live only and forever in the real world. — Nathaniel Fick

What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis? — Will Rogers

I can't say that dropping out of school at 16 to join the Marines was my best idea. On the other hand, maybe it was. Who knows? — Daniel Woodrell

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