Goddam it, you’ll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me! (Captain Henry P. Jim Crowe, USMC, Guadalcanal, 13 January 1943.)

Come on, you sons of bitches-do you want to live forever? (Attributed to Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly, USMC, Belleau Wood, June 1918.)

Once a Marine, always a Marine! (MSgt Paul Woyshner, a 40-year Marine, is credited with originating this expression during a taproom argument with a discharged Marine.)

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world. (General Douglas MacArthur, USA, outskirts of Seoul, 21 September 1950.)

Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning. (Colonel David M. Shoup, USMC, Tarawa, 21 November 1943.)

Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there. (Lieutenant General Victor H. Krulak, USMC, April 1965.)

You don’t hurt ‘em if you don’t hit ‘em. (Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC, 1962.)

Retreat Hell! We’re just attacking in another direction. (Attributed to Major General Oliver P. Smith, USMC, Korea, December 1950.)

I can’t say enough about the two Marine divisions. If I use words like brilliant, it would really be an under-description of the absolutely superb job they did in breaching the so-called impenetrable barrier. . .Absolutely superb operation, a textbook, and I think it’ll be studied for many, many years to come as the way to do it. (General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 27 February 1991.)