Here are some from my 'quotes' files: (Not all are Marine but they all certainly apply to Marines...)
"'Knowledge dominance' does scare us as Marines. General George Armstrong Custer probably thought he had knowledge dominance, too. Any time you thing you're smarter than your adversary, you're probably about a half-mile from the Little Big Horn."
— Colonel Art Corbett, USMC
He who loves not his country can love nothing.
- Lord Byron
"It is one thing to shout for peace, but quite another to encourage the obvious enemy by saying in advance that you won't fight in any circumstances."
- Maurice Oldfield
"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."
- George Orwell
"Process worship cripples operating forces" Staff of I MEF, USMC Feb 2007
"The First Amendment guarantees everyone"s right to be a seditious armchair general...."
Tom Knott
"Always remember the Seven "P's"...Proper Prior Planning Prevents **** Poor Performance.".
GySgt Mike Beeler
"Listen. And understand. That terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead." Kyle Reese (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000299/)
"Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not."
Hilaire Belloc
Crazy Earl (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0420029/): These are great days we're living, bros. We are jolly green giants, walking the Earth with guns.
"Now remember, things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is...." The Outlaw Jose Wales
"Duty is the sublimest word in our English language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less." Robert E. Lee
"Gun control, the theory that 110lb. women should have to fistfight with 210lb. rapists." - Chris Morton.
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."
General Sir Charles Napier, CinC, India, circa 1835
<DL><DD>They went with songs to the battle, they were young. <DD>Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow. <DD>They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted, <DD>They fell with their faces to the foe.</DD></DL>
<DL><DD>They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old: <DD>Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. <DD>At the going down of the sun and in the morning, <DD>We will remember them. <DD>"Ode of Remembrance" - Laurance Binyon, 1914</DD></DL>"He knew that...the war was still in him, and that it would be in him for a long time to come, for soldiers who have been blooded are soldiers forever. They never fit in. Even when they finally settle down, the settling is tenuous, for when they close their eyes they see their comrades who have fallen. That they cannot forget, that they do not forget, that they never allow themselves to heal completely, is their way of expressing their love for friends who have perished. And they will not change, because they have become what they have become to keep the fallen alive."
--Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War
A Persian Cdr told the Spartans that they didn't want their lives, just their weapons, and they could go free.
"Molon Labe" was the response by King Leonidas:
Come and get them.
Today, the senior leadership of the U.S. armed forces in general and, the U.S. Army in particular, is overly bureaucratic, risk averse, professionally inadequate and, hence, unsuited to the complex military tasks entrusted to them.
Col Douglas MacGregor, US Army retired
You have no idea who those boys were. You have no idea what their motivation was for joining the military. Every man and woman over there knows what the dangers are. They know what they risk everyday. Their deaths don’t belong to you. By claiming moral outrage at their sacrifice you trivialize the lives they lived, the honor that they bought themselves. You sacrifice nothing.
Their service to their country is over. They belong to their families now.
Blogger "Rusty", Milblogs.
"Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points." Knute Rockne
"Nonviolence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom." H.G. Wells
"When you guys get home and face an anti-war protester, look him in the eyes and shake his hand. Then, wink at his girlfriend, because she knows she's dating a pussy."
-Commanding General, 1st Marine Division
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear" Chief Edward F. Croker, FDNY
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That's all for now.