For over 221 years our Corps has done two things for this great Nation.  We make Marines, and we win battles.  [Gen. Charles C. Krulak, USMC (CMC); 5 May 1997]
 

Come on, you sons of bitches!  Do you want to live forever?  [GySgt. Daniel J. "Dan" Daly, USMC; near Lucy-`le-Bocage as he led the 5th Marines' attack into Belleau Wood, 6 June 1918]
 

Gone to Florida to fight the Indians.  Will be back when the war is over.  [Col. Archibald Henderson, USMC (CMC); in a note pinned to his office door, 1836]
 

Don't you forget that you're First Marines!  Not all the communists in Hell can overrun you!  [Col. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC; rallying his First Marine Regiment near Chosin Reservoir, Korea, December 1950]
 

Marines die, that's what we're here for.  But the Marine Corps lives forever.  And that means YOU live forever.  [the mythical GySgt. Hartman, USMC; portrayed by GySgt. R. Lee Ermey, a Marine Corps Drill Instructor using his own choice of words in Full Metal Jacket, 1987]
 

You'll never get a Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole!  Follow me!  [Capt. Henry P. Crowe, USMC; Guadalcanal, 13 January 1943]
 

We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military prowess.  [Gen. James L. Jones, USMC (CMC); 10 November 2000]
 

I have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company.  We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us.  I have no one on my left and only a few on my right.  I will hold.  [1stLt. Clifton B. Cates, USMC; in Belleau Wood, 19 July 1918]
 

I love the Corps for those intangible possessions that cannot be issued: pride, honor, integrity, and being able to carry on the traditions for generations of warriors past.  [Cpl. Jeff Sornij, USMC; in Navy Times, November 1994]