The best USMC quotes

Here is a list I compiled of the best USMC quotes around.  Enjoy!

• "You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em." -(Lieutenant General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC, 1962.)
• "Retreat Hell! We're just attacking in another direction." -(Attributed to Major General Oliver P. Smith, USMC, Korea, December 1950.)
• "Come on, you sons of bitches-do you want to live forever?" -(Attributed to Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly, USMC, Belleau Wood, June 1918.)
• "Once a Marine, always a Marine!" -(MSgt Paul Woyshner, a 40-year Marine, is credited with originating this expression during a taproom argument with a discharged Marine.)
• "I can't say enough about the two Marine divisions. If I use words like brilliant, it would really be an under-description of the absolutely superb job they did in breaching the so-called impenetrable barrier. . .Absolutely superb operation, a textbook, and I think it'll be studied for many, many years to come as the way to do it." -(General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 27 February 1991.)
• "I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world." -(General Douglas MacArthur, USA, outskirts of Seoul, 21 September 1950.)
• "The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle!" -(General Pershing, US.Army)
• "The more Marines I have around the better I like it!" -(General Mark Clark, U.S. Army)
• "A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons." -(Admiral David Porter, USN)
• "I can never again see a United States Marine without experiencing a feeling of reverence." -(General Johnson, U.S. Army)
• "The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years." -(James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy)
• "We have two companies of Marines running all over this island and thousands of Army troops doing nothing!" -(General John Vessey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs in Greneda)
• "The safest place in Korea was right behind a platoon of Marines. Lord, how they could fight!" -(Major General Frank Lowe, U.S. Army)
• "Panic sweeps my men when they are facing the American Marines." -(Captured North Korean Major)
• "Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem." -(President Ronald Reagan, 1985)
• "I want you boys to hurry up and whip these Germans so we can get out to the Pacific to kick the shit out of the purple-pissing Japanese, before the Goddamned Marines get all the credit!" -(Lt General George Patton, US Army 1945)
• "I come in peace, I didn't bring artillery.  But I am pleading with you with tears in my eyes:  If you fuck with me, I'll kill you all." -(Marine General James Mattis, to Iraqi tribal leaders)
• Marines know how to use their bayonets. Army bayonets may as well be paper-weights. -(Navy Times; November 1994)
• 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. -(Gen. John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, USA; 12 February 1918)
• Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean. They're aggressive on the attack and tenacious on defense. They've got really short hair and they always go for the throat. -(Rear Adm. "Jay" R. Stark, USN; 10 November 1995)
• A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors. -(Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery)
• Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just having air power or ship's fire, when it comes to deterring a crisis. And the ships and Marines may not have to do anything but lie offshore. It is hard to lie offshore with a C-141 or C-130 full of airborne troops. -(Gen. Colin Powell, U. S. Army, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff During Operation Desert Storm)
• You cannot exaggerate about the Marines. They are convinced to the point of arrogance, that they are the most ferocious fighters on earth- and the amusing thing about it is that they are. -(Father Kevin Keaney, 1st Marine Division Chaplain, Korean War)
• 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. -(Admiral William Halsey, U.S. Navy)
• Do not attack the First Marine Division. Leave the yellowlegs alone. Strike the American Army. -(Orders given to Communist troops in the Korean War; shortly afterward, the Marines were ordered to not wear their khaki leggings.)
• Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary. -(Gen. Al M. Gray, USMC, Commandant of the Marine Corps)
• If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war. -(General of the Armies Douglas McArthur in Korea, overheard and reported by Marine Staff Sergeant Bill Houghton, Weapons/2/5)

Quotes courtesy of www.3rdMarines.net and www.oldcorps.org

LWM out................