Quotes
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- "Our Country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any America because some foreign soldier will invade us and take our women and breed a heartier race!"
- "They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can't get away from us now!"
- "Great. Now we can shoot at those bastards from every direction."
- "We're surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them." - November 1950, during Chosin Reservoir campaign
- "Remember, you are the 1st Marines! Not all the Communists in Hell can overrun you!" (at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir)
- "Take me to the Brig. I want to see the real Marines."
- "Alright you bastards, try and shoot me!" (to North Korean forces)
- "Where do you put the bayonet?" (upon seeing a flamethrower for the first time)
- "You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em."
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“I quote another man’s saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. What he quotes, he fills with his own voice and humour, and the whole cyclopedia of his table-talk is presently believed to be his own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say “I think,” “I am,” but quotes some saint or sage.”
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