(228 quotes found)
“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
“Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.”
Carl Schurz
“Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.”
Ronald Reagan
“Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely.”
Lane Evans
“We have a wretched motley Crew, in the Fleet; the Marines the Refuse of every Regiment, and the Seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt Water.”
Benedict Arnold
“A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner”
English Proverb
“We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?”
Gen John W. Vessey Jr.
“I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!”
Douglas MacArthur
“Get off your butt and join the Marines!”
John Wayne
“Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.”
Senator John Kerry
