>>3822867
Well, how about these…
A Marine is a Marine. I set that policy two weeks ago - there's no such thing as a former Marine. You're a Marine, just in a different uniform and you're in a different phase of your life. But you'll always be a Marine because you went to Parris Island, San Diego or the hills of Quantico. There's no such thing as a former Marine.
—General James F. Amos, 35th CMC
So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.
—Robert Kiyosaki
Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there.
—LtGen Victor H. Krulak to a Marine unit leaving for Vietnam, April 1965
In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.
—Adam Driver
They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines.
—LtGen Thomas Holcomb, 17th CMC, 1943
"shilly" enough for you?