“ What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis? ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
- 1.3K
“ We're waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on singing about an incident in which marine recruits died driven to their deaths by an officer. ”
- Pete Seeger- Copy
- 3.2K
“ We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just narrowed the candidates to one. And my 31-year naval career flew out the window. ”
- Stansfield Turner- Copy
- 586
“ Because their planes were destroyed on Saipan, he was taken into the Marines which had aircraft. ”
- Ron Meyer- Copy
- 3.8K
“ It was unlike any feeling I've ever had,... because we're so close to these Marines. ”
- Robert Anderson- Copy
- 3.3K
“ We have to be prepared for a long involvement. We have to do it not just rhetorically. We have to have the resources, we have to expand our army, our Marine Corps, we have to provide them with the best equipment possible,... There's lots of things we can do. ”
- Jack Reed- Copy
- 287
“ Ensuring the security of our global supply chain is critical to homeland security since maritime trade accounts for over 25 percent of the U.S. GDP (gross domestic product) and many experts believe that terrorists are likely to exploit the inherent vulnerabilities of the global supply chain for their nefarious purposes. ”
- Norm Coleman- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. ”
- Carl Schurz- Copy
- 2.3K
“ We all know that Washington families are making a tremendous commitment to winning the War on Terror. Tonight, more than 22,000 Washington state soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are risking their lives under hostile fire in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the globe. ”
- Patty Murray- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I do not believe Robin Moore and Ross Perot have any competition for being the two greatest supporters in America today for our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, but especially for our special operations community. We are very fortunate and blessed to have Robin and Helen Moore to move into our great community of Hopkinsville. ”
- Robert Hall- Copy
- 1.4K
“ What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year? ”
- Lady Nancy Astor- Copy
- 789
“ If we're going to spend more money, it should go to the soldiers, Marines, and airmen to increase their salaries. ”
- David Hunt- Copy
- 2.2K
“ When you wake up in the morning and lose 14 marines, people say, 'What's going on?'. ”
- Newt Gingrich- Copy
- 2.6K
“ We are grateful to members of the Third Battalion 25th Marines who served along the Euphrates River corridor. ”
- Dick Cheney- Copy
- 3.5K
“ These soldiers over there and these Marines are very special people,... They care about these people. ”
- Gary Sinise- Copy
- 3.5K
“ My guess is that somebody decided they'd play a trick on the Marines. ”
- Alice Thompson- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training. ”
- David Hunt- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
- 3.3K
“ I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century. ”
- Oliver North- Copy
- 630
“ We really worked on our interoperability, which can only strengthen maritime security in the region. ”
- Justin Long- Copy
- 4K
“ One who in a crisis forgets nautical language and shouts: 'For God's sake turn left!'. ”
- Michael Green- Copy
- 2.1K
“ But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago. ”
- Joseph C. Lincoln- Copy
- 1K
“ Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity. ”
- William Manchester- Copy
- 1K
“ Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by. ”
- John Masefield- Copy
- 3.4K
“ No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers. ”
- Orville Wright- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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