Chesty Puller Quotes

As Marines, it's drilled into us... to take care of fellow Marines.

I did 22 years in the military. I went through Paris Island. I'm a Marine. I will never not be one.

I'm proud to have served there for 12 months with Alpha Company of the 39th Infantry.

I am proud to be a SEAL and serve in the military.

Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in a fight, one is being wasted. Being a minority group militarily, they are proud and sensitive in their dealings with other military organizations. A Marine's concept of a perfect battle is to have other Marines on the right and left flanks, Marine aircraft overhead and Marine artillery and naval gunfire backing them up.

I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps.

I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier. They get up every morning, they want to dig a hole, and they want to kill something.

The thing about the Air Force or any branch of the military is that all of us were plucked away from our homes and our comfort zones and our families. So there was a solidarity in the military, a brotherhood.

I have drawn a very close bond to all the military people.

The traditional definition of patriotism was more associated with the military. Now we have broadened the definition to not only service to one’s country, but service to all mankind.

I have incredibly positive associations with the military.

The best time of being a Marine was Afghanistan. There will never be a time when I'm sleeping in the dirt and I haven't showered in four months and I'm with 50 of the people that I'll be the closest with ever.

I was a Marine for 41 years, and it wasn't long enough. We enjoy putting on that uniform.

You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

I knew early I wanted to follow my father into the military. He did a full 30-year career and retired as a full colonel in the Marines after graduating from Allentown H.S. and later from Cornell University.

We have the finest military in the world, an elite group of men and women who continue to be a tremendous source of national pride by routinely putting their lives on the line to protect our freedom.

I grew up in a military family, so I liked being in an atmosphere where there was almost that feeling.

When you make a war movie, the other side has to be the enemy. You're making a war movie from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.

The young people I work with every day and serve the nation in the armed forces in general, and the Marine Corps in particular, have broken the mold and stepped out as men and women of character who are making their own way in life while protecting ours.

I always give much attention to military character and to psychological and morale conditions.

To serve in the modern military - or to be the uncle, parent or sibling of one who does - is to treat the necessary service and sacrifice of war with a sacred honor. In my community, we pile into cars and drive hundreds of miles to watch our children's graduation from basic training.

In the many roles I have played in my acting career as military figures, I have simply drawn upon the acts of courage, large and small, I have seen in the men and women with whom I served, and the countless others I met or have come to know through the years.

In the Marine Corps, we're taught to put America above ourselves.