Marine Corps League
Thames River Detachment #1334
P. O. Box 254, Quaker Hill, Ct. 06375
Welcome to statements about the United States Marine Corps,
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We do not understand joy...until we face sorrow. Faith... until it is tested. Peace...until faced with conflict. Trust...until we are betrayed. Love...until it is lost. Hope...until confronted with doubts.
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1. There are only two kinds of people that understand Marine: marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a second opinion.
Gen William Thorson; US Army
2. Freedom is not free, but US Marines will pay most of your share
Ned Dolan
3. 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
4. Hell, these are Marines. Men like them held Guadalcanal and took Iwo Jima, Bagdad ain't shit.
Marine Major General John F. Kelly
5. We signed up knowing the risk, Those innocent people in New York didn't go to work thinking there was any kind of risk.
Marine Pvt. Mike Armendariz; Afghanistan 2008
6. The safest place in Korea was right behind a platoon of Marines, Lord they could fight.
MGen. Frank Lowe; Korea 1952
7. Marines know how to use their bayonets, Army bayonets may as well be paper-weights.
Navy times: 1994
8. 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 1918
9. The United State Marine Corps, with its fiercely proud tradition of excellence in combat, its hallowed rituals, and its unbending code of honor, is part of the fabric of American myth.
Thomas E. Ricks; Making the Corps 1997
10. 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, President of the United States; 1985
11. 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, First Lady of the United States,1945
12. I have only two men out of my company and twenty out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right, I will hold.
1stLt. Clifton B. Bates; Belleau Wood, 1918.
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