United States Marine Corps

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Semper Fidelis

United States Marine Corps is the branch of the United States armed forces established to conduct amphibious (ship to shore) combat and protect diplomatic missions of the United States government.

Sourced

• Semper Fidelis ~ official motto
  • Always Faithful ~ English translation of Latin motto
  • Semper Fi! ~ Abbreviated version

• From the halls of Montezuma
  To the shores of Tripoli
  We fight our country's battles,
  On the land as on the sea.
  • The Marines' Hymn (1919)

• Come on, you sons-o'-bitches! Do you want to live forever?
  • First Sergeant Daniel Daly, 73rd Machine Gun Company, to the men in his company prior to charging the Germans during the Battle of Belleau Wood in World War I. This is the version popularly attributed to Daly and recorded by Floyd Gibbons in And They Thought We Wouldn't Fight (1918), p. 304, ISBN 9781417903719
  • Variant: For Christ's sake men—come on! Do you want to live forever?
    • First Sergeant Daniel Daly, 73rd Machine Gun Company. Alternative version claimed by Daly himself.^{[citation needed]}

• Some people work an entire lifetime and wonder if they ever made a difference to the world. But the Marines don't have that problem.
  • President Ronald Reagan in a letter to Lance Cpl. Joe Hickey (1983-09-23), R.W. "Dick" Gaines refers in detail.

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• Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share.
  • Ned Dolan

• 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, U.S. Army

• A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.
  • David D. Porter, USN

• Once a Marine, Always a Marine

• Honor, Courage, and Commitment.

• To the Corps!

Disputed

• Come on, you sons-o'-bitches! Do you want to live forever?
  • First Sergeant Daniel Daly, 73rd Machine Gun Company, to the men in his company prior to charging the Germans during the Battle of Belleau Wood in World War I. This is the version popularly attributed to Daly and recorded by Floyd Gibbons in And They Thought We Wouldn't Fight (1918), p. 304, ISBN 9781417903719
  • Variant: For Christ's sake men—come on! Do you want to live forever?
    • First Sergeant Daniel Daly, 73rd Machine Gun Company. Alternative version claimed by Daly himself.^{[citation needed]}
  • Also attributed to Frederick the Great, addressing his men at the 1757 w:Battle of Kolín: Dogs, would you live forever? (Kerls, wollt ihr ewig leben?) Duffy, Christopher: Frederick the Great: A Military Life. 1985: Law Book Co of Australasia. ISBN 978-0710096494.

External links

USMC quotes at Old Corps