Quotations about U.S. Marines
| The safest place in Korea was right behind a platoon of Marines. Lord, how they could fight! |
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| Marines know how to use their bayonets. Army bayonets may as well be paper-weights. |
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| 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? |
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| I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world. |
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| 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? |
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| Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. The Marines don't have that problem. |
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| 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. |
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| Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever? |
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| Gone to Florida to fight the Indians. Will be back when the war is over. |
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| Don't you forget that you're First Marines! Not all the communists in Hell can overrun you! |
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