State Marine Ensign

Famous quotes containing the words state, marine and/or ensign:

    “Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS—our inferior one varies with the place.”
    —Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

    “God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.”
    —Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)

    “Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
    Long has it waved on high,
    And many an eye has danced to see
    That banner in the sky;”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)