David Dixon Porter famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.
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If the Marines are abolished half the efficiency of the Navy will be destroyed. They are as necessary to the well being of a ship as the officers. Instead of decreasing the Corps, I would rather hope to see a large increase, for we feel the want of Marines very much.
-- David Dixon Porter
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.
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Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.
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Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.
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Re. the Caribbean Conservation Corporation Everybody in the organization has subscribed to the original concept that its most important attributes are a single-minded resistance to any distraction from the central aim of keeping watch over the Tortuguero nesting colony and a determination to make it the most thoroughly studied sea turtle population in the world.
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Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.
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I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had.
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You want to know who's now running the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the Marines and calling the shots where it counts? Fundamentalist Muslims and homosexual activists.
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Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.
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Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.
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