Clergyman's

“I assure you, Virginia, that I, never in my life, have ever made a statement that ""I like to fight.”
— Chesty Puller

“I want to go where the guns are.”
— Chesty Puller

“I wish I had a flair for writing, as then I am certain this regiment would get the credit due them when the history of this operation is finally written. Now everyone knows, but in a few years what is written will govern. I will do a better job of getting the facts in my reports than I did in the past war. I will also claim everything due the regiment.”
— Chesty Puller

“I'll take care of my men first. Frozen troops can't fight. If we run out of ammunition, we'll go to the bayonet.”
— Chesty Puller

“Where the Hell do you put the bayonet?”
— Chesty Puller

“We've been looking for the enemy for some time now. We've finally found him. We're surrounded. That simplifies things.”
— Chesty Puller

“I have yet to encounter any officer here who has read an account of the Russo-Japanese War. The Japanese armies went up through Korea, crossed the Yalu River and turned westward to capture Port Arthur. The Japanese forces found out what cold weather would do to the troops under field conditions.”
— Chesty Puller

“The Continental Army never went through anything like those boys in Korea. The weather at the Chosin Reservoir averaged 25 degrees below zero. and it doesn't get that cold at Valley Forge.”
— Chesty Puller

“Those days in the woods saved my life many a time in combat.”
— Chesty Puller

“Let 'em get in close. Don’t waste ammo. Get your share! Remember, you don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em.”
— Chesty Puller

“I want you to do one thing for me — write your people back home and tell 'em there's one hell of a damned war on out here, and that the raggedy-tailed North Koreans have been whipping a lot of so-called good American troops, and may do it again. Tell 'em there's no secret weapon for our country but to get hard, to get in there and fight.”
— I want you to make 'em understand: Our country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any America — because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race.- Chesty Puller

“Our Eighth Army headquarters is still in Seoul. I don’t understand how they expect the troops to reach the Yalu River without their leaders.”
— Chesty Puller