The safest place in Korea was right behind a platoon of Marines.  Lord, how they could fight!  [MGen. Frank E. Lowe, USA; Korea, 26 January 1952]
 

Marines know how to use their bayonets.  Army bayonets may as well be paper-weights.  [Navy Times; November 1994]
 

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; 12 February 1918]
  

The United States Marine Corps, with it 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]
 

The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next five hundred years.  [James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy; 23 February 1945 (the flag-raising on Iwo Jima had been immortalized in a photograph by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal)]
 

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!  [Gen. Douglas MacArthur, USA; Korea, 21 September 1950]
 

We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing.  What the hell is going on?  [Gen. John W. Vessey Jr., USA, Chairman of the the Joint Chiefs of Staff; during the assault on Grenada, 1983]
 

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, U.S. President; 1985]
 

Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean.  They're aggressive on the attack and tenacious on defense.  They've got really short hair and they always go for the throat.  [RAdm. "Jay" R. Stark, USN; 10 November 1995]
 

They told (us) to open up the Embassy, or "we'll blow you away."  And then they looked up and saw the Marines on the roof with these really big guns, and they said in Somali, "Igaralli ahow," which means "Excuse me, I didn't mean it, my mistake."  [Karen Aquilar, in the U.S. Embassy; Mogadishu, Somalia, 1991]