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10 November 2025 is the 250th anniversary of the United States Marine Corps. I served in the Corps, and today I work for the Corps s a historian. I am proud to be a Marine, proud of my Corps. We celebrate our birthday every year with balls and ceremonies, and for the past few years I've celebrated by sharing quotes about Marines on line. Not all positive - loving the Corps means taking the bad with the good - but they all illustrate, in my opinion, some aspect of the Corps and the Marines who make it what it is. So, through 10 November, I'll share several quotes a day, a long with a iconic painting or photograph about Marines.
Today's Marine Corps Quotes:
"A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons."
(Admiral David D. Porter, USN, 1863.)
"The Marines have landed and have the situation well in hand."
(Attributed to many sources and popularized by the correspondent Richard Harding Davis during the late nineteenth-century.)
"Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning."
(Colonel David M. Shoup, USMC, Tarawa, 21 November 1943.)
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| Marines struggle ashore on Tarawa Atoll's Betio Island Charles Waterhouse, Tarawa, 20 Nov. 1943 |
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