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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:
"To our Marines fell the most difficult and dangerous portion of the defense by reason of our proximity to the great city wall and the main city gate. . .The Marines acquitted themselves nobly."
(Mr. Edwin N. Conger, U.S. Minister, in commending the Marines for the defense of the legations at Peking, China, in 1900.)
"Retreat Hell! We've just got here!"
(Attributed to several World War I Marine Corps officers, Belleau Wood, June 1918.)
"Once a Marine, always a Marine!"
(MSgt Paul Woyshner, a 40-year Marine, is credited with originating this expression during a taproom argument with a discharged Marine.)
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| "Wheat Field" charge of 6th Marines—around Belleau Wood—to town of Bouresches. Schoonover, Frank Earle (September 1919). "Souvenir Pictures of the Great War-caption: How Twenty Marines Took Bouresches". Ladies' Home Journal vol. 24 (no. 1). |
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