Quotes & Sayings About The Usmc

Sergeant Bobby Shaftoe, USMC, pours some beans into the grinder and starts to belabor the crank. A black flurry begins to accumulate in the coffeepot below. He has learned to make this stuff the Swedish way, using an egg to settle the grounds. — Neal Stephenson

The purpose of the bayonet training, Sergeant Gerheim explains, is to awaken our killer instincts. The killer instinct will make us fearless and aggressive, like animals. If the meek ever inherit the earth the strong will take it away from them. The weak exist to be devoured by the strong. Every Marine must pack his own gear. Every Marine must be the instrument of his own salvation. It's hard, but there it is. — Gustav Hasford

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

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

Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary. — Alfred M. Gray

Democracy and tyranny are not distant relatives. They're bedfellows."

-General John James
Commandant, USMC
December 11th, 2032 — L. Douglas Hogan

He couldn't help but wonder what Hannah might have looked like if ... he'd answered that question April had asked him years ago. — Sandi Layne

Take your time.
Stay away from the easy going.
Never take the same way twice.
Gunny Arndt's rules for successful reconnaissance; Guadalcanal 1942 — GYSGT Charles C. Arndt

Then, as now, it was just uncomfortable. Now, as then, it was a lifted chin and a crooked smile that said more than they would ever allow themselves to communicate. — Sandi Layne

Great Marine commanders, like all great warriors, are able to kill that which they love most -- their men. — Nathaniel Fick

The purpose of bayonet training is to awaken your killer instincts. The killer instinct will make you strong. If the meek ever inherit the earth the strong will take it away from them. The weak exist to be devoured by the strong. Every Marine must pack his own gear. Every Marine must be the instrument of his own salvation. — Stanley Kubrick

In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Everyone of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers. — Chris Kyle

A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons. — David Dixon Porter

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

So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time! — Chesty Puller

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

It takes thousands of bullets to kill an army but one to end a war. — Michael Martinez

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

Their fiery advance and great tenacity were well recognized by their opponents. — Ernst Otto Fischer

We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem! — Chesty Puller

I'm in battle mode. Shut down. Hard. I'm not Hunter anymore. I'm Lance Corporal Lee, USMC. Semper Fi, bitches. — Jasinda Wilder

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

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

When I joined the military it was illegal to be homosexual, then it became optional, and now it's legal. I'm getting out before the Democrats make it mandatory. — Sgt. Harry Berres, USMC

Pvt. Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is what counts!"
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman USMC
— Matthew Modine

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

Yet if he had been asked ... if he were happy ... He would have admitted readily enough that he was uncomfortable, that he was cold, and badly fed, and venomous; that his clothes were in rags, and his feet and knees and elbows raw and bleeding through much walking and crawling; that he was in ever-present peril of life, and that he really did not expect to survive the adventure he was about to thrust himself into voluntarily, but all this had nothing to do with happiness: that was something he never stopped to think about. — C.S. Forester

My great uncle Pvt. Tommy Rooney, USMC, was killed on Guam during the Pacific Campaign in World War II. I was named after him, so I always thought about him and wearing the uniform. The JAG Corps gave me that opportunity after law school. — Tom Rooney