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[[Image:UMArt7.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A Space Marine{{Fn|1}}]]

Space Marines make statements about other factions all the time; such quotes should preferably be collected in other articles (e.g. a quote made by a Space Marine about the [[Eldar]] should be collected in the [[Eldar Quotes]] article).

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'''Without the Emperor, there is nothing,...<br>

'''''And we would have no purpose'''''

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|align=center|[[Adeptus Astartes]], ''[[The Book of Faith]]''

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|align=center|[[Abrahim Kobal]],<br> [[Techmarine]] of the [[Salamanders]]

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|align=center|[[Apollo Diomedes]],<br>[[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] of the [[Blood Ravens]]

|align=center|[[Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution]]

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|align=center|[[Imperial Armour Volume Nine - The Badab War - Part One]],<br> pg. 124

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|align=center|'''''The [[Codex Astartes]] is a set of rule. They guide us, shape us as Ultramarines, teach us to place duty and honour above all. But how we live with those rules is the true test of a Space Marine. And you have failed.'''''

|align=center|[[The Art of Warhammer Video Games]],<br> pg. 136,<br>[[Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine]]

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|align=center|[[Donatos Aphael]],<br> [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] of the [[Blood Angels]] [[2nd Company (Blood Angels)|2nd Company]]

|align=center|[[Codex: Blood Angels (8th Edition)]],<br> pg. 57

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|align=center|'''''We are weapons. There is the Emperor, and there is war. Nothing more.'''''

|align=center|[[Dawn of War 2]]

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|align=center|[[Azrael]],<br> [[Dark Angels Grand Master|Commander]] of the [[Dark Angels]]

|align=center|'''''We may be few, and our enemies many. Yet so long as there remains one of us still fighting, one who still rages in the name of justice and truth, then by the [[Allfather]], the galaxy shall yet know hope.'''''

|align=center|[[Codex: Space Wolves (5th Edition)]],<br> pg. 95

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|align="center"|[[Boreas (Dark Angels)|Boreas]],<br>[[Interrogator-Chaplain]] of the [[Dark Angels]]

|align="center"|'''''They are the sons of the Angel, the blooded host, the defenders of Humanity. They are strength. They are nobility. They are the Blood Angels, and I say to you there are no more loyal or determined servants of the Emperor alive today.'''''<br>- High Lord Baldus Bael to [[Ordo Astartes]] Inquisitor [[Neizallkin]] following the [[Grand Accusation]]

|align=center|[[Codex: Blood Angels (8th Edition)]],<br> pg. 84

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|align=center|[[Deathwatch Core Rulebook]],<br>pg. 180

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|align=center|'''''We pray for our brethren who pilot the [[Dreadnoughts]]. Though they take new form, their souls, and their weapon mounts, remain pure.'''''

|align=center|[[Warhammer 40,000 Compendium]],<br>pg. 59<br>[[Warhammer 40,000 5th Edition Rulebook]],<br>pg. 72

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|align="center"|'''''The War will be decided here, where the planet's defenses are strongest.'''''

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|align="center"|'''''We are the Ultramarines, the sons of Guilliman. Whilst we draw breath, we stand. Whilst we stand, we fight. Whilst we fight, we prevail. Nothing shall stay our wrath.'''''

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|align="center"|'''''Warriors of Ultramar! This is where we make our stand. If death is to be our fate, then we shall meet it with the Emperor’s word on our lips and his light in our eyes. If we must die, we will die; but we shall never yield.'''''

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|align="center"|[[Carnak]],<br>[[Chaplain]] of the [[Imperial Fists]] [[3rd Company (Imperial Fists)|3rd Company]]

|align="center"|[[Ultramarines - A Warhammer 40,000 Movie]]

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|align="center"|'''''Time flows in contradictions since the invasion as an unexpected slowness in the aftermath of an impossible victory. A languid sweetness of air tasted by the hapless victor, and yet I also feel the turning of change.'''''

|align="center"|[[The Art of Warhammer Video Games]],<br>pg. 100,<br>[[Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector|Battlesector]]

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|rowspan=5 align=center|[[Ortan Cassius]],<br>[[Master of Sanctity]] of the [[Ultramarines]]

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|align="center"|[[Judd Clausel]],<br>[[Chaplain]] of the [[Ultramarines]] [[4th Company (Ultramarines)|4th Company]]

|align="center"|[[Defenders of Ultramar (Graphic Novel)]],<br> ch. 4

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|align="center"|'''''I haven't lost an arm, brother. It's right over there.'''''

|align="center"|[[Rynn's World (Novel)]],<br> Part Three, ch. 8

|align="center"|'''''It should convey some measure of the threat that the Tyranids represent to the Emperor’s realm that their continued onslaught compelled the most Codex-adherent of all Space Marine Chapters to voluntarily alter their sacred doctrines. The fact of that alteration, of course, also speaks volumes of the Ultramarines’ absolute determination to annihilate this rapacious xenos menace.'''''

|align=center|[[Codex Supplement: Ultramarines (8th Edition)]],<br> pg. 69

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|align=center|[[Corphal]],<br> [[Space Marine Sergeant|Veteran Sergeant]] of the [[Blood Angels]] [[1st Company (Blood Angels)|1st Company]]

|align="center"|'''''For eleven hundred years, I have fought and I have seen the darkness in our galaxy. I have seen the vileness of the alien and the heresy of the mutant. I have witnessed the sin of possession. I have seen all the evil that the galaxy harbours, and I have slain all whose presence defiles the Emperor. I have seen what you will see. I have fought what you must fight, and I have slain what you must slay... so fear not and be proud, for we are the sons of [[Sanguinius]], the protectors of Mankind. Aye, we are indeed the Angels of Death.'''''

|align=center|[[Codex: Blood Angels (4th Edition)]],<br> pg. 6

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|align="center"|[[Develain]],<br>[[Reclusiarch]] of the [[Black Templars]]

|align=center|[[Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition)]],<br> pg. 62

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|align="center"|'''''Give me a hundred Space Marines. Or failing that give me a thousand other troops.'''''<br> - attributed

|align="center"|[[Codex: Space Marines (4th Edition)]],<br> pg. 2 - Introduction

|align="center"|'''''A warrior’s eye should seem to see everything: The movement of the enemy’s blade, the intent in their eyes, the doubt in their heart. But to achieve this, you must know where to place your gaze, and most of all, when to do so.'''''<br> - attributed

|align="center"|[[Deathwatch Core Rulebook]],<br>pg. 333

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|align=center|[[Dek’Naru]],<br> [[Reiver Squad|Reiver]] of the [[Salamanders]]

|align="center"|'''''The Imperium faces encroaching darkness upon every side. More than ever, the might of the Ultramarines is needed to drive the enemy back and safeguard the Emperor’s realm. We shall not shirk from that duty, no matter what it may cost us.'''''

|align=center|[[Codex Supplement: Ultramarines (8th Edition)]],<br> pg. 62

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|align=center|[[Haakon Draugrsbane]],<br> [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] of the [[Space Wolves]]

|align="center"|'''''No angel ever descended from the heavens with as much sound and fury as do we. Let the Drop Pods’ roar herald our coming–the brief warning our foe hears shall avail them naught.'''''

|align=center|[[Codex: Blood Angels (8th Edition)]],<br> pg. 122

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|align=center|[[Codex Supplement: Iron Hands (8th Edition)]],<br> pg. 63

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|align=center|'''''Only when your hearts have beat to the same pulse of clashing weapons as your enemy’s, only when his blood anoints you, and you glimpse the blackness waiting for us all in his dying eyes—only then have you known battle.'''''

|align=center|[[Deathwatch Core Rulebook]],<br> pg. 153

|align=center|'''''Raise the flag high. Let those degenerates know who comes to claim their lives this day!'''''

|align=center|[[Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition)]],<br> pg. 55

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|align=center|[[Gideon]],<br>[[Black Templars]] [[Marshal]],<br>[[Mephistari Crusade]]

|rowspan=4 align=center|[[Franz Grenzstein]],<br> [[Librarian]] of the [[Imperial Fists]]

|align="center"|'''''We of the [[Librarium]] must be aware of Chaos. Yet we do not ourselves aim to contend with Chaos, unless compelled to.'''''

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|align="center"|'''''Don’t confuse gratitude for a serendipitous event with any cloying compassion towards the author of that event...'''''

|align=center|[[Codex: Space Wolves (5th Edition)]],<br> Back Cover

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|align="center"|'''''Whatever the Emperor's will is, be sure it will find you out.'''''<br>- attributed

|align=center|[[Nightbringer (Novel)]],<br> ch. Eleven

|align="center"|'''''Many things about this dark new age have caused me to question all that my father and I tried to build. Many things have disappointed me. The [[Marneus Calgar|Chapter Master]] of my loyal and noble Ultramarines is most emphatically not one of them.'''''

|align=center|[[Codex Supplement: Ultramarines (8th Edition)]],<br> pg. 64

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|align=center|[[Ghol’kwe]], [[Space Marine Sergeant|Veteran Sergeant]] of the [[Salamanders]]

|align=center|'''''[[Malkaan Feirros|Feirros]] is the best of us: disciplined; resolute; loyal. In his centuries of service he has learned every lesson of combat–the data from which we all know. Thus are our wars driven by uncompromising logicand total confidence in victory.'''''

|align=center|[[Codex Supplement: Iron Hands (8th Edition)]],<br> pg. 52

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|align=center|[[Galano]],<br> [[Chapter Master]] of the [[Blood Angels]] (deceased)

|align="center"|'''''Stand fast brothers! We are the Emperor’s Fist, closed and ready to strike!'''''<br>- at the [[Battle of Broken Scythes]]

|align="center"|[[Deathwatch Core Rulebook]],<br> pg. 213

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|rowspan=2|[[Balthazar von Heppel]],<br> [[Ministorum]] [[Adept]]

|align="center"|'''''Only the spirit is pure.<br>The mind may be swayed, the body may fail.<br>Only the soul cradles vengeance purely.<br>Become the weapon of the soul.<br><br>Where the mind hesitates, overcome it.<br>Where the body fails, replace it.<br>Aspire to the condition of the Primarch.<br>Emulate his union with steel.<br><br>Never waver.<br>Never retreat.<br>Never doubt.<br><br>The flesh is weak.<br>The weak shall be purged.<br>What remains is strength.'''''

|align=center|[[Wrath of Iron (Novel)]],<br> ch. 12

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|align="center"|[[Ursus Kane]],<br> [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] of the [[Iron Hands]]' [[3rd Company (Iron Hands)|3rd Company]]

|align="center"|'''''Let the Orks come by the thousand, or by the tens of thousands; we shall be ready for them. This world is the Emperor's, not theirs, and we shall wash it clean with their blood.'''''

|align="center"|[[Warhammer 40,000 5th Edition Rulebook]],<br>pg. 18

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|align="center"|[[Euphrati Keeler]],<br>[[Remembrancer]]

|align="center"|-'''This is the holy bolter. It is a [[Godwyn-pattern Boler|Godwyn-pattern]] model with an ammo counter, sinister/dexter locking mechanism, and a sickle magazine containing 30 rounds. Each round is a .75 calibre bolt with a [[diamantine]] tip, depleted deuterium core and mass-reactive detonator. It fires in four-round bursts.'''''<br>- to his [[Scout]] Squad

|align="center"|[[Deathwatch core Rulebook]],<br> pg. 28

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|rowspan=2 align="center"|[[Kor'sarro Khan]],<br> [[Space Marine Captain|Khan]] of the [[White Scars]] [[3rd Brotherhood (White Scars)|3rd Company]], [[Master (Space Marine)|Master of the Hunt]]

'''''Understand that you are not our foes; you are our prey, and you will meet your end as such.'''''<br>

|align=center|[[Codex Supplement: White Scars (8th Edition)]],<br> pg. 52

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|align="center"|[[Ancient Kryll]],<br>[[Space Wolves]] [[Dreadnought]]

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|align=center|[[Shoran Kord]],<br> [[Intercessor]] of the [[Imperial Fists]]

|align=center|[[Codex Supplement: Imperial Fists (8th Edition)]],<br> pg. 62

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|align=center|[[Codex Supplement: Iron Hands (8th Edition)]],<br> pg. 62

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|align=center|'''''Warriors of Chogoris! Brothers of the Great Tribe! The star hunt calls you, do you not hear it? The battle’s red edge is your home, the respect of your kinsmen your hearth. Plunge into the enemy’s breast like a blade, cut out his heart, and you will know fulfillment. The Emperor has given us strength. In return we give him victory!'''''<br>- Jaghatai Khan, the [[Last Charge of Galathamar]]

|align=center|[[Codex Supplement: White Scars (8th Edition)]],<br> pg. 6

|align=center|'''''My sons. More than ceventy years since we cast the [[traitor]]s from walls of the [[Imperial Palace]] and began the restoration of our home. We stand on the brink of victory, one that your every sacrifice has counted towards. Today we cleanse the Galaxy of those who crossed our boundaries, violated our home and took our people. They will be crushed beneath our treads, disembowelled by our blades and left shattered by our guns. I will have their heads on spikes, lining the roads of [[Chogoris]]. I will see their foul structures torn to the ground and turned to dust. Of their leader... On that monster I shall inflict a hundredfold the pain it has caused my people. MY sons, you shall each do the same.'''''<br>- Fragments of Jaghatai Khan’s address to his sons ahead of the [[Corusil V|Battle of Corusil]]

|align=center|[[Codex Supplement: White Scars (8th Edition)]],<br> pg. 27

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|align=center|[[Vorgha Khan]],<br> [[Space Marine Captain|Khan]] of the [[White Scars]] [[8th Brotherhood (White Scars)|8th Company]]

|align=center|[[Codex Supplement: White Scars (8th Edition)]],<br> pg. 56

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|align=center|[[Leitz]],<br>[[Exorcists]] [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]]

|align=center|[[Warhammer 40,000 Compendium]],<br> pg. 21;<br>[[Warhammer 40,000 5th Edition Rulebook]],<br>pg. 20

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|align="center"|'''''We have all burned. Down in the fire pits, or from the brander’s iron in the solitorium, we have all touched the fire. It leaves scars, even for us. We carry them proudly, with honour. But the scars we took that day on that [[Drop Site Massacre|battlefield]], we bear only with shame and regret. They are a memorial in flesh, a physical reminder of everything we have lost, a burn even we fire-born cannot endure without pain.'''''

|align="center"|[[Vulkan Lives (Novel)]],<br>Chapter Ten

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|align=center|[[Nicomaeus]],<br> [[Sanguinary Guard]] of the [[Blood Angels]]

|rowspan=12 align=center|[[Primarch]] [[Leman Russ (Primarch)|Leman Russ]] of the [[Space Wolves]]

|align=center|'''''Listen closely Brothers, for my life's breath is all but spent. There shall come a time far from now when our chapter itself is dying, even as I am now dying. Then my children, I shall list'n for your call from whatever realms of death hold me, and come I shall no-matter what laws of life and death forbid. At the end I will be there. For the final battle. For the Wolftime.'''''<br> – before his final departure into the [[Eye of Terror]]

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|align=center|'''''Only in the Space Marines of the Legiones Astartes are courage and expertise perfectly blended. In other troops they are present in varying degrees and proportions, and many scholars have debated their relative merits.'''''<br>

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|align=center|[[Rhetoricus]] of the [[Imperial Fists]]

|align=center|[[Codex Supplement: Imperial Fists (8th Edition)]],<br> pg. 21

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|align=center|[[Codex Supplement: Salamanders (8th Edition)]],<br> pg. 44

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|align=center|'''''The Storm Giants’ ways are ancient, though their origins are lost to the ravaging inferno of time. I witnessed their neophytes on Torquar being led in what their sergeant called the Doctrine of Ash, and felt a sliver of recognition. My old sergeant of the 7th was as patient and wise, and I knew then the strength of our allies.'''''

|align=center|[[Codex Supplement: Salamanders (8th Edition)]],<br> pg. 56

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|align="center"|Battle-cry of the [[Salamanders]]

|align=center|[[Codex: Blood Angels (8th Edition)]],<br> pg. 6

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|rowspan=2 align="center"|[[Gabriel Seth]],<br>[[Chapter Master]] of the [[Flesh Tearers]]

'''''Foes burn in our passing'''''

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|align=center|[[Spiccare]],<br> [[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeant]] of the [[Blood Angels]] [[1st Company (Blood Angels)|1st Company]]

|align=center|'''''The undefeatable foe is a myth, conjured by weak minds to conceal flagging willpower. Vision. Purpose. Hope. Take these things from him, afraction at a time if you must, and victory will follow as surely as turbulent night yields to cold dawn.'''''

|align=center|[[Codex Supplement: Raven Guard (8th Edition)]],<br> pg. 12

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|align=center|[[Acchus Skorrn]],<br> [[Iron Father]] of the [[Iron Hands]]

|align=center|[[Deathwatch Core Rulebook]],<br> pg. 19

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|align=center|[[Imperial Armour Volume Two - Second Edition: War Machines of the Adeptus Astartes]],<br> pg. 60

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|align=center|'''''Forget all your preconceptions of war, of battle-lines clashing in the churned ground. Your mission is to attack before the foe even realises that the war has begun, to strike hard at those vital weaknesses that all armies possess, but that no commander will admit to. Under my tutelage you will learn how to seek out such fragilities and smite them with every weapon at your disposal. Master these duties and I will have nothing more to teach, and you will truly be a Space Marine.'''''

|align=center|[[Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition)]],<br> pg. 75

|align=center|'''''The Adepts of Mars can provide us with all the advanced firearms and blades and armour they like, but the most important equipment any warrior of the Adeptus Astartes wields is that which lies behind his eyes and that which beats within his breast.'''''

|align=center|[[Codex Supplement: Ultramarines (8th Edition)]],<br> pg. 66

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|rowspan=3|[[Aeonid Thiel]],<br> [[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeant]] of the [[Ultramarines]] [[13th Chapter (Ultramarines)|13th Chapter]], [[135th Company (Ultramarines)|135th Company]]

|''[[On Mournful Wings (Short Story)]]

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|align=center|'''''Each path must be chosen with care,<br>Lest disaster swallow us whole.'''''

|align=center|[[Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition)]],<br> pg. 86

|align=center|'''''It cannot be considered a gift, to peer into the Warp and unravel the possibilities of the future that are, that might be, and that must be prevented. Nor can the burden of a weapon, that each of my brothers looks upon with girded revulsion, be called a gift. No, Master, I do not think my psychic prowess a gift... but a tool. Whether by a quirk of fate, or the will of the Emperor, I possess a weapon the like of which can turn the tide, not just in a battle but in the course of history. To withhold it, to flinch from its use or deny it would not just be counter-productive, it would be heresy. But if it is a gift, it is a cruel one.'''''<br> - from the journal of [[Marneus Calgar]], quoting Tigurius, 991.[[M41]]

|align=center|[[Warlords of the Dark Millennium: Tigurius (Background Book)]],<br> pg. 3

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|rowspan=2|[[Tarik Torgaddon]], [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] of the [[Luna Wolves]] [[2nd Company (Luna Wolves)|2nd Company]]

|align="center"|'''- You are a base-born cur!'''<br>'''''- Just so you know, you'll have to do an awful lot better than that. I'm a base-born cur, and proud of it.'''''<br>- to [[Lord Commander]] [[Eidolon (Emperor's Children)|Eidolon]] of the [[Emperor's Children]]. (circa [[M30]])

|align="center"|[[Horus Rising (Novel)]],<br> Part Two, ch. 6, pg. 297

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|align="center"|[[Nico Trevellias]],<br> [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] of the [[White Consuls]]

|align=center|[[Troos]],<br> [[Librarian|Marine Psyker]] (presumably [[White Scars]])

|align=center|'''''Arm yourselves, fools, the enemy are within us!'''''<br> – last statement, [[FivesEye Campaign]]

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|rowspan=2 align=center|[[Tu'shan]],<br>[[Chapter Master]] of the [[Salamanders]]

|align="center"|'''''The more potent a weapon is, the more dangerous and complex a process is its wielding. The more energy a blade or gun unleashes, the more damage it can inflict, the more perilous it would prove to an unwary wielder. How deadly, then, is the infinite power of the warp when focused through the mind of a trained Librarian, and how dolorous a duty is ours in ensuring that this source of untrammelled destruction does not run wild to the damnation of all.'''''

|align=center|[[Codex Supplement: Ultramarines (8th Edition)]],<br> pg. 78

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|align=center|[[Erasmus Tycho]],<br> [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] of the [[Blood Angels]] [[3rd Company (Blood Angels)|3rd Company]] (deceased)

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|align=center|[[Tybael]],<br> of the [[Blood Angels]] [[2nd Company (Blood Angels)|2nd Company]]

'''''The madness took him in the hours before the drop. One moment we knelt side-by-side amongst the ranks. The next, the Chaplain was there, intoning the moripatris, and I saw in Furio’s eyes that he no longer knew me. The next I saw of him was upon the field of battle, leading the charge into the traitor guns, his armour painted black as a shroud. He tore through them, my brother, leaving a trail of sundered corpses as though he were Sanguinius himself. He and his lost comrades tore a breach in their lines before at last they were cut to pieces by the enemy’s fire. Through their sacrifice they brought us victory.'''''

|align=center|'''''It is as [[Master of the Forge]] [[Malkaan Feirros]] says: “A Titan is a mighty weapon of the Omnissiah, but without the fires of its reactor it is but cold, dead metal.”'''''

|align=center|[[Codex Supplement: Iron Hands (8th Edition)]],<br> pg. 39

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|align=center|Arch-[[Scribe]] [[Urtos]],<br>[[Memorite]] of the [[Book of Days and Leagues]]

|align="center"|[[The Chapter's Due (Novel)]],<br> ch. 11, pg. 217

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|rowspan=4 align=center|[[Vulkan]],<br> [[Primarch]] of the [[Salamanders]]

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|align="center"|'''''Bolters? Chainswords? All fine weapons, however I wield a far more dangerous power.'''''

|align="center"|Unknown [[Librarian]]

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|align="center"|'''''Consider the [[Predator]]. Let your soul be armoured with Faith, driven on the tracks of obedience which overcomes all obstacles, and armed with the three great guns of Zeal, Duty and Purity.'''''