"I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General."

-- Smedley Butler

#Country Quotes #Military Quotes #Marine Quotes

“I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable pleasure, though I sin frightfully against the conventions of the stage. It is a comedy with three female parts, six male, four acts, a landscape (view of the lake), lots of talk on literature, little action and tons of love.”
“I love you, too... I won't ever leave you again. I promise. I kept that promise. For love him I did. For nearly two years I spent almost every waking hour with him. Until he was taken from me. But I never left him. And I never will.”
“In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.”
“Sometimes it takes failure to figure out who you aren't.”
“Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life.”
“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”
“The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.”
“I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.”

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