Alfred M. Gray famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.
-- Alfred M. Gray

#Military #Marine #Firsts
There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.
-- Alfred M. Gray

#Lonely
I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.
-- Alfred M. Gray

#Mother #Running #Father
I go where the sound of thunder is.
-- Alfred M. Gray

#Sound #Thunder
Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.
-- Alfred M. Gray

#Communication #Noise #Internet

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.
In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right." One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.
Due to the oath I swore to the constitution when I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, by virtue of the universal human right to self defense, in accordance with the Supreme Court case, D.C. vs. Heller, which affirmed that the statutes under which I am being charged are unconstitutional and thus null and void, and on behalf of all freedom loving Americans, I plead not guilty.
I came to my first Colts training camp in July of 1950, and it was murder, absolute murder. We had a coach named Clem Crow who must have been nuts. You got to remember that I'd been a Marine, had gone through basic training and spent 26 months in the Pacific during WWII, but the Marine drill instructors had nothing on Clem.
A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.
Combat is my profession and fighting was a great way to maintain a combat mindset while preparing to lead Marines in war.
Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.

Alfred M. Gray famous quotes

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