Graves B. Erskine quotes
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“Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was...What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left to dedicate our cemetery at the end, or whether the last Marine would die knocking out the last Japanese gun and gunner.”
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“Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was.”
-- Graves B. Erskine
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Source : Quoted in James Charlton, The Military Quotation Book (1990)
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“Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.”
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“With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.”
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“I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had.”
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“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.”
Source : "The Weapon Shop". "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" Magazine, December 1942.
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“I'm not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun... Not unless I have to!”
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