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Honor those brave and noble Adeptus Astartes who sacrifice their lives for the Emperor of Mankind. Read quotes from famous Space Marines on this page and ponder the grimdark Imperium of Mankind and the sacrifices it requires.

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).

For quotes made by, or about, members of the Space Marine Chamber Millitant of the Inquisition, the Grey Knights and Deathwatch, see Inquisition Quotes.

Attributed

Imperial Tomes and Chapter Mottos

Tome	Quote	Source
Apocrypha of Eons, Verse I, Chapter III	No place shall be denied to them, no enemy shall bar their way. They shall be proud of heart and stoic of spirit. They shall be measured and wise, yet their hatred shall burn with such heat that their enemies wither and die before them. They shall be masters of every weapon, every ploy, and every strategy, fierce in the attack and solid in the defence. They shall go where others fear to tread, and return victorious, that we all might live but one more day.	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 84
Apocrypha of Eons, Verse I, Chapter V	Look to your fore—there you shall see your foe. Blast him! With bolt, flame, and plasma, lay waste to his body and shrive his very soul. Do this so that your brothers may close upon their target, do it because their very lives depend upon your deeds, do it because they are your kin, and you are theirs, and you can never fail.	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 76
Apocrypha of Eons, Verse I, Chapter VI	Look not behind you, brother. Know in your heart that your kin are there, offering their fire and their prayers. Look instead to your foe as you scream from the skies upon jets of white fire. Take but one instant to savour the fear in his eyes as he looks skywards, and there, in the keen edge of your blade, he sees his doom, delivered by your hand.	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 72
Apocrypha of Eons, Verse V, Chapter L (M40 Redaction)	Yours is to serve, unto the last drop of your blood, that your brothers might live to fight on. Watch over them, heal them, offer up your very life should it extend theirs but a moment, and by your sacrifice the enemy be slain. And when the time comes that you must fulfil your most solemn oath, speak clearly, speak proudly, speed the bolt that brings his end and send him joyous to the Emperor’s side. Then do your duty, take that which is due, and know your mission is done.	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 68
Apocrypha of Eons, Verse XXI, Chapter LXI (Appendix cii)	Your fate is to know that which may not be known, to look into those places of darkness and desolation and know that horrors look back upon you. Speak not to your brothers of such things, but use the gifts you have been given, by the Emperor himself, to blast and sear and rend and banish all those who would deny us our destiny.	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 80
Apocrypha of Eons, Verse III, Chapter CIV	Yours is to heed the machine as others heed their kin. Tend to the war spirits all about, but do so in the knowledge that you do the Emperor’s duty. Without your ministrations, no bolt may be fired, and no enemy slain.	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 88
Blood Ravens Librarian saying	An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded.	Dawn of War
Imperial Maxim	The enemies of the Emperor fear many things. They fear discovery, defeat, despair, and death. Yet there is one thing they fear above all others. They fear the wrath of the Space Marines!	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 22
Ritual and Responses, Tome of Truths Foretold, Legiones Astartes, Library Copy	Without the Dark, there can be no Light, We have purpose Without the Lie, there can be no Truth, We have purpose Without the War, there can be no Victory, We have purpose Without the Death, there can be no sacrifice, We have purpose Without the Hope there can be no Future, We have purpose Without the Loyalty there can be no one chapter, We have purpose Without the Emperor, there is nothing,... And we would have no purpose	Book of the Astronomican, pg. 71
Adeptus Astartes, The Book of Faith	At battle's end, speak the Liturgy in a clear voice. Respect the bravery of the living. Give the Rite of Passage to the fallen. Honour the battle gear of the dead. To do all this with reverence, even when exhausted by battle and weary from the field, is the duty of a Chaplain. It is his burden and satisfaction.	Warhammer 40,000 Compendium, pg. 25
Catechism of the Xenos, Extract from the Third Book of Indoctrination	To be Unclean That is the Mark of the Xenos To be Impure That is the Mark of the Xenos To be Abhorred That is the Mark of the Xenos To be Reviled That is the Mark of the Xenos To be Hunted That is the Mark of the Xenos To be Purged That is the Mark of the Xenos To be Cleansed For that is the Mark of the Xenos	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 320
Medic Credo	Do not fail your Brothers. Though their bodies die, their spirit must return to the Chapter. That is your charge.	Warhammer 40,000 Compendium, pg. 28
Discourses on the Seventy-Nine Truths of Statecraft	“Many find it utterly preposterous that a realm so vast as the Imperium should rely so completely upon only a million or so Space Marines to defend it against the untold horrors of the galaxy. These fools ask, ‘if the Imperium is made up of more than a million worlds, how can but one Space Marine defend each?’ They have no conception of the application of strategic power. They do not understand how but one battle can turn the tide of war in the same manner as one sniper’s bullet can end a tyranny. The Space Marines do not fight protracted campaigns or engage in wars of attrition; they launch lightning strikes where their presence will tip the balance. While the uncounted masses of the Imperial Guard engage in century-spanning wars in which millions lay down their lives to advance but a mile, the Space Marines carry the fight to the very heart of the enemy. By cutting out that heart, by brandishing it before his eyes even as he dies, by crushing it to a pulp before his cowering followers, the Space Marines win the battles that win the wars that win the crusades that ultimately decide the balance of power in the entire galaxy.”	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 77
Litany of Devotion	Where there is uncertainty, I shall bring light. Where there is doubt, I shall sow faith. Where there is shame, I shall point atonement. Where there is rage, I shall show its course. My word in the soul shall be as my bolter in the field.	Accursed Eternity (Novella) - Architect of Fate (Anthology), ch. 7, pgs. 100-101 Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 57
Meditations upon the Fang	The Space Wolves revere the Emperor as the greatest warrior of all time, the only being to have ever bested Leman Russ in hand-to-hand combat. When Space Wolves call upon Russ or the Emperor in battle, it is to witness the deeds of men and to judge the fallen.	Codex: Space Wolves (5th Edition), pg. 27
Rites of Girding	Bless this plate, that it may deflect the blade of my enemy and the bullets of the unrighteous.	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 160
Statement of fact, Second Book of Chantings	There is only the Emperor, and he is our Shield and Protector.	Warhammer 40,000 Chapter Approved - The Book of the Astronomican, pg. 78
Inscription upon the Arcus Daemonica, attributed to the Emperor of Mankind	One unbreakable shield against the coming darkness One last blade, forged in defiance of fate Let them be my legacy to the galaxy I conquered And my final gift to the species I failed	The Emperor's Gift (Novel), Prologue, pg. 13
Extract from the Pax Terminatum	Within dark and forgotten places hide the enemies of the Emperor. You have been chosen to enter such places and, protected by the best armour the Adeptus Mechanicus can provide, cleanse it. Take with you weapons, a valiant heart and the Emperor's blessing, and engage the enemy where it makes its lair. Acknowledge death as it approaches, but do not succumb to its touch, for your purpose is great. You have proved yourselves to be worthy of the status you now hold. Everyone of you standing here, all of whom have declared allegiance to the Emperor and take his will as your guide, have shown your courage and have been rewarded for it. Those that stand before me, I charge you now, go forth and vanquish the foe.	Codex: Blood Angels (8th Edition), pg. 51

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Speaker	Quote	Source
Artemis, Watch Captain of Deathwatch	Do not ask, “Why kill the alien?" Rather ask, “Why not?”	Codex: Deathwatch (8th Edition), pg. 35<Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 311
Abrahim Kobal, Techmarine of the Salamanders	Nothing survives its touch, nothing escapes its grasp. It is a weapon of unspeakable power and unmatched devastation – a horror from a bygone age. - about Vortex Grenades	Strategy Cards for Planetary Empires expansion game, card "Vortex Grenade - Minor Stratagem", (saved archive page, dated February 2011, last accessed 5 October 2015)
Isador Akios, Librarian of the Blood Ravens	Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.	Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
	Through the destruction of our enemies do we earn our salvation!	Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
Androcles, Captain of the Star Phantoms	The lives of millions, and the honour of our Chapter, hang in the balance brothers. Failure is not an option.	Strategy Cards for Planetary Empires expansion game, card Vital Mission - Minor Stratagem", (saved archive page, dated February 2011, last accessed 6 October 2015)
Apollo Diomedes, Captain of the Blood Ravens	The rabble has deployed heavy weapons. As the Codex demands, flank their positions and avoid their lanes of fire. - citing the instruction of the Codex Astartes and Roboute Guilliman that space marines should, ideally, not charge directly toward the fire of heavy weapons.	Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution
Gabriel Angelos, Captain of the Blood Ravens	While the enemies of the Emperor still draw breath, there can be no peace.	Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
	Stretched thin, the Imperial Guard is barely keeping order in the major population centers sacrificing their lives long enough to keep back the green tide of the Orks. They are truly warriors of the Emperor.	Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
Hauis Argento, Chaplain of the Crimson Fists 2nd Company	If your life is given in service to the Emperor, your death shall not be in vain.	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 58
Argentius, Commander of the Silver Skulls	Victory does not always rest with the big guns: but, if we rest in front of them we shall be lost.	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 79
Armand Titus, Chaplain-Dreadnought of the Howling Griffons	Here we stand and here shall we die, unbroken and unbowed, though the very hand of death itself come for us, we will spit our defiance to the end! - The Last Stand on Khymara Ellipsis	Imperial Armour Volume Nine - The Badab War - Part One, pg. 124
Arn Ironjaw, Wolf Guard	Street by street and block by block we’ll sweep them out. There are snipers on the rooftops and the underpass is heavily mined. It’s going to be dangerous, it’s going to be fun. - at the conquest of Carste	Strategy Cards for Planetary Empires expansion game, card "Cityfight - Major Stratagem", (saved archive page, dated February 2011, last accessed 7 October 2015)
Artor Amhrad, Chapter Master of the Astral Knights (deceased)	Victory often rests on the correct weaponry being in the right place and at the right time. Even the most destructive weapons of war are worthless if absent from the battle.	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 74
Donatos Aphael, Captain of the Blood Angels 2nd Company	Barricades, is it? And reserves doubtless lurking in the ruins behind, poised to ambush. Send in the Repulsors, and leave nothing but rubble and dust. - Captain Aphael at the Siege of Kardalla	Codex: Blood Angels (8th Edition), pg. 57
Astorath, High Chaplain of the Blood Angels	Treat them with honour, my Brothers. Not because they will bring us victory this day, but because their fate will one day be ours. - on the Death Company	Codex: Blood Angels (5th Edition), pg. 44
Avitus, Blood Ravens Devastator Sergeant	Come you aliens, show me what passes for fury amongst your misbegotten kind!	Dawn of War 2
	We are the Emperor's angels of death, not his angels of mercy.	Dawn of War 2
	Don't fool yourselves. War is all we are! Killing is all we are good for! The rest is delusion.	Dawn of War 2
	We are weapons. There is the Emperor, and there is war. Nothing more.	Dawn of War 2
Azkariel, Codicier of Deathwatch	With a thought I can shatter bone and crumple steel, shield my comrades behind a banner of impenetrable force or augment their might with my own. I am a living weapon – honed, deadly and versatile enough to take the fight to the xenos foe and prevail.	Codex: Deathwatch (8th Edition), pg. 69
Azrael, Commander of the Dark Angels	Forget your past life. From this day on, you are simply a Dark Angel—nothing else is of consequence. The Chapter is all that matters. - addressing new recruits to the Scout company	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 26

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Speaker	Quote	Source
Barabel, Praetors of Orpheus Techmarine	Offer the incantation of activation, speak forth the litany of retribution and deliver unto the enemy the wrath of the Omnissiah.	Strategy Cards for Planetary Empires expansion game, card Special Ammunition - Minor Stratagem", (saved archive page, dated February 2011, last accessed 6 October 2015)
Belial, Grand Master of the Dark Angels	Fenris breeds heroes like a bar breeds drunks - loud, proud and spoiling for a fight.	Codex: Space Wolves (5th Edition), pg. 21
Bjorn the Fell-Handed, Venerable Dreadnought of the Space Wolves	I was on Prospero, brothers. I was there when we burned their heresy from the galaxy. I saw Leman Russ lay waste to their cherished places. I saw Traitors weep from corrupted eyes as we turned their pyramids of glass into barren wasteland. That will not happen here. They were made weak by the knowledge of their treachery. We are made strong by the knowledge of our fidelity. Where Tizca fell, the Aett will stand. Though it may cost the lives of us all, the Aett will stand. - during the Battle of the Fang	Battle of the Fang (Novel), ch. Fourteen, pg. 304
	God-Emperor? Calling him a god was how all this mess started.	The Emperor's Gift (Novel), ch. Twenty-Five, pg. 290
Ragnar Blackmane, Wolf Lord of the Space Wolves	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.	Codex: Space Wolves (5th Edition), pg. 95
Boreas, Interrogator-Chaplain of the Dark Angels	I ask myself what it means to be one of the Dark Angels. Is it to hunt the Fallen, chasing shadows through the dark places of the galaxy? Is it to pursue our quest at any expense, forgoing all other oaths and duties? Is it to lie, to hide and to plot so that others will never know of our shame? Is it to keep our own brethren unacquainted with the truth of our past, the legacy we all share in? Or ist it to be a Space Marine? Is it to follow the path laid down by the Emperor and Lion El'Johnson at the founding of this great Imperium of man? To protect mankind, to purge the alien, cleanse the unclean?	Ravenwing (Novel), Two - Brother Boreas Speaks
Eddan Bourne, Captain of the Silver Skulls No. 2 Assault Company	Show me a fortress and I'll show you a ruin.	Warhammer Siege, pg. 105
Bev’tharn, Lexicanium of the Salamanders	Vulkan’s fire lies at the heart of every battle-brother of the Chapter, indeed at the heart of what it means to be a Salamander. I have learned to use my mind to draw upon this fire, to shape it as I shaped my sword on the anvil. And like my sword, the fire at my heart is a weapon in service to the Imperium, a burning brand to sear our enemies or a torch to guide my brothers.	Codex Supplement: Salamanders (8th Edition), pg. 62
Basistus, Lieutenant of the Ultramarines	Our First Founding brothers follow the teachings of their Primarchs and in so doing learn to specialise in particular areas of battle. Be it the siegecraft of Dorn’s sons, the swift strikes of the White Scars or the shadow weaving of the Raven Guard, all are powerful if singular ways of war. We of the Ultramarines have no such luxury. Our father teaches of balance in all things, and so must we excel in all areas of strategy to the exclusion of none. This we do, brothers. - Lieutenant Basistus, before the Battle of Theld’s Gulf	Codex Supplement: Ultramarines (8th Edition), pg. 73
Baldus Bael, High Lord of Terra	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. - High Lord Baldus Bael to Ordo Astartes Inquisitor Neizallkin following the Grand Accusation	Codex: Blood Angels (8th Edition), pg. 84
Brand, Watch Captain	Amongst a hundred men, there may be none fit for the Adeptus Astartes. Amongst a hundred Space Marines, there may be one fit for the Deathwatch.	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 25

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Speaker	Quote	Source
Cadras, Epistolary of the White Consuls Chapter	As the chainsword rends flesh, so will you rend souls. As the boltgun tears bodies, so will you tear minds. The power of the Immaterium is your weapon, and you will use it well.	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 180
Marneus Calgar, Chapter Master of the Ultramarines	We pray for our brethren who pilot the Dreadnoughts. Though they take new form, their souls, and their weapon mounts, remain pure.	Warhammer 40,000 Compendium, pg. 59
	Know this, son of Guilliman. The father of our Chapter watches over us always. He knows your soul, your strengths and, aye, even your fears. I share your pain at the loss of Brother-Captain Idaeus, but to dishonour his name with grief is wrong. He gave his life so that his battle-brothers would live and the enemies of the Emperor would be defeated. A warrior can ask for no better death than that. Captain Idaeus was the senior officer, and you were duty bound to follow his orders when they were given. The chain of command must not be broken or we are nothing. Discipline and order are everything on the battlefield and the army that lives by that credo will always triumph. - to Uriel Ventris, shortly after his promotion to captaincy of the 4th Company	Nightbringer (Novel) - Ultramarines: The Omnibus, ch. 2, pg. 47
	We follow in the footsteps of Guilliman. As it is written in the Codex, so shall it be.	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 16
	You all heard Varro's words. The daemon is vulnerable, exposed, and we have one chance to end this. Right here and right now, the fate of Ultramar is in our hands. You are the best and bravest of your Chapter, and though we may die in these mountains, we will die in service to something greater than blood, something greater than land. We fight for what we know is right. I will lead you in that fight, and all I ask is that you fight like the heroes you are! - rallying the survivors of the Ultramarines 1st Company on Talassar, for a final charge against the Daemon Prince M'kar	The Chapter's Due (Novel), ch. 23, pg. 307
	For Ultramar! CHARGE! - on Talassar	The Chapter's Due (Novel), ch. 23, pg. 308
	The War will be decided here, where the planet's defenses are strongest.	Magic: The Gathering's Universes Beyond Warhammer 40,000 - Command Tower
	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.	Codex Supplement: Ultramarines (8th Edition), pg. 6
Caelicus, Ultramarines Sergeant	The history of our chapter is in this bolter. Twelve times it has passed from one of our fallen Brothers to his successor. May the deeds it performs in your hands live up to theirs. - upon a Scout's induction to the 10th Company	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 138
Carnak, Chaplain of the Imperial Fists 3rd Company	Everything has a purpose, Proteus. So the Emperor ordains.	Ultramarines - A Warhammer 40,000 Movie
Ortan Cassius, Master of Sanctity of the Ultramarines	The blasphemy of the Tyranids is such that only one solution is acceptable. Extermination. There can only be two sides in a fight - choose carefully, lest you and I find ourselves on different sides.	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 87
	We give hope. Ever has it been that the Space Marines are too few to conquer every threat. Yet the truth of our existence and the hope of our intervention steels the hearts of lesser warriors and lends strength to their conviction. They hold out against impossible odds and offer up prayers to the Emperor that the Angels of Death will come. They fight harder, knowing that if they do so we might intervene. Mankind believes our Emperor to be a god, and that is both foolish and blind. Yet they also believe the Adeptus Astartes to be the instrument of His will, and that is not so ignorant. I cannot say whether the Emperor answers prayers thrown up in desperation, but I do know that the Ultramarines reply to calls for aid if it is possible. To not answer that cry for help threatens to shatter something far more precious than ore worlds and hive factories: faith in the Space Marines.	Catechism of Hate (Novella), ch. One
	What is it to be a Space Marine? - It is to be death! What is it to be death? - It is to be the destroyer, the end of all things. What is it to end life? - It is an honour, to be the executioners of the Emperor. Why do we fight? - To protect the Imperium and deliver mankind from the evil of the xenos, the mutant and the heretic! What is the xenos? - A blight to be purged! What is the mutant? - A cancer to be excised! What is the heretic? - A shame to be expunged! What is the bolter, the flamer, the missile? - The incarnation of destruction, by which we bring about the death of the Emperor's foes! What is the armour, the helm and the shield? - The embodiment of our faith, our determination given form. Who is the primarch? - Our father, our guide, our king! Who is the Chapter Master? - The primarch's regent, to whom we swore oaths, the voice of the Emperor in the mortal world. What are our oaths? - The steel that binds our lives to the Emperor. What did we swear? - Our lives are as nought in the vision of the Emperor, save that by them we shall destroy all foes. What is the fate of all foes? - To perish in the fire of battle and be cleansed from the galaxy. Who will prevail against the darkness? - The Ultramarines! Who are the swords of the Emperor? - The Ultramarines! Who are the sons of Magragge? - The Ultramarines! For the Emperor and the primarch! Death! Bring death to our foes! -The Macragge Catechism of Hate	Catechism of Hate (Novella), ch. Nine
	We must scour them from the stars before they do same to us. - about the Tyranid menace	Consumption, #039 card of the "The Great Devourer", expansion to Conquest Card Game, Fantasy Flight Games (last accessed 11 July 2015)
	They are an enemy unnumbered. They are hunger incarnate, a rapacious invading foe that we cannot reason with, cannot bribe or trick and whose spirit we cannot break. The Tyranids will keep coming until every living thing in the galaxy is slain, or they are. I will see to it that it is the latter that occurs.	Codex Supplement: Ultramarines (8th Edition), pg. 30
Antaro Chronus, Ultramarines Sergeant	The roar of engines, the recoil of cannons. That is where the true joy of battle lies.	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 89
	Let them hide in their fortress. My crew can use the target practice.	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 80
Judd Clausel, Chaplain of the Ultramarines 4th Company	What is the terror of death? That we die with our work incomplete. What is the joy of life? To die knowing our task is done. I stand alongside warriors of honour, and the warrior who acts out of honour cannot fail. His duty is honour itself. Even a warrior's death--if it is honourable--is a reward and can be no failure, for it has come through duty. Seek honour as you act, and you will know no fear. A fortress is a living thing: the commander its brain, the walls its bones, the sensors its eyes and ears, the troops its blood, their weapons its fists. If one organ fails, the whole dies. And if the whole dies, no single organ can survive alone. And above all, remember this... for a warrior the only crime is cowardice.	Defenders of Ultramar (Graphic Novel), ch. 4
Alessio Cortez, Captain of theCrimson Fists	I haven't lost an arm, brother. It's right over there.	Rynn's World (Novel), Part Three, ch. 8
Crastor, Ultramarines Sergeant	Look to your battle gear and it will protect you. We guard it with our lives. As your armour guards your life. As it has my fallen brethren. Honour the craft of death. We serve only the Emperor. Honour the battle gear of the dead. We ask only to serve. - an exchange between a servitor and Crastor	Ultramarines - A Warhammer 40,000 Movie
Carab Culln, of the Red Scorpions	As I bear the colours of my Chapter boldly, so too do these glorious machines. Their flankes caryy our Livery with pride and the scream of their jets proclaims the coming for all our foes to hear.	Imperial Armour Volume Two - Second Edition: War Machines of the Adeptus Astartes, pg. 120
	If my Marines are ordered to serve alongside these tainted half-animals, they shall do so. But upon their return they shall be quarantined and purified by every means in our Apothecarion. – on Ogryns	Warhammer 40,000 Compendium, pg. 52
	They are an effective force in their way, and I do not doubt the Emperor's wisdom in allowing tainted subhuman filth to serve Him. But my men shall not be exposed to the corruption of these beasts. – on Beastmen	Warhammer 40,000 Compendium, pg. 150
	Camouflage is the colour of fear... I have no need to hide from my foes... I have no fear of death. My colours I wear openly, they proclaim louder than any words, "I am proud to live - I am proud to die".	Warhammer 40,000 Compendium, pg. 84
Corvus Corax, Primarch of the Raven Guard	Swear with me now, my children, to follow me wherever this road leads. Swear to show no mercy to the Traitors. Swear to slay them with hatred in your heart. Swear to excise this cancer that Horus has nourished in the heart of the Imperium. Swear to bring again the Imperial Truth to the galaxy. Swear that we will never fail again! - Lord Corax, to the surviving Raven Guard as they exited the Isstvan System	The Horus Heresy Book Three - Extermination, pg. 282
	The First Axiom of Victory is to be other than where the enemy desires you to be The First Axiom of Stealth is to be other than where the enemy believes you to be The First Axiom of Freedom is that justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyranny -Corvus Corax, Axioms of the Legiones Astartes Raven Guard	The Horus Heresy Book Three - Extermination, pg. 130
Calistus, Sergeant of the Ultramarines	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.	Codex Supplement: Ultramarines (8th Edition), pg. 69
Corvean, Watch Captain of Deathwatch	To fall upon the enemy with meteoric fury, death blazing from your clenched fists, armoured body impervious to shot and blade, and to tear the heart from the foe – that is the way of the Inceptor, and it is a doctrine that has seen the foul xenos defeated time and time again.	Codex: Deathwatch (8th Edition), pg. 80
Corphal, Veteran Sergeant of the Blood Angels 1st Company	I have fought on worlds wreathed in perpetual darkness, where unclean monsters crawled from the slime in their millions. I have fought across blazing sky-cities as they fell from the heavens, and battled heretic mind-witches in the depths of their twisted sanctums. I have locked blades with Ork warriors so strong they could crush ceramite with their fists, duelled traitors whose blades moved faster than thought, and slain howling abominations the size of tanks. Through all of it, I have learned to hold one truth above all others– our strength flows from the Primarch, and he who venerates Sanguinius above all else will never be defeated.	Codex: Blood Angels (8th Edition), pg. 50

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Speaker	Quote	Source
Dac'tyr, Captain of the Salamanders 4th Company	Shields are holding, power at 44%. Let them spend their impotent wrath.	Strategy Cards for Planetary Empires expansion game, card Energy Field - Minor Stratagem", (saved archive page, dated February 2011, last accessed 6 October 2015)
Dante, Commander of the Blood Angels	Bountiful fate has presented us with the means by which we might repair those wounds upon our souls caused by the weakness of centuries past. It is not only our duty but our right to face the darkness again; to stare into the abyss of the unknown. This time we shall be the cleansing light in the shadow, the burning beacon of righteous war. Restore the honour of the shamed fallen through the death of your foes!	White Dwarf September 2016, Space Hulk - Ductways
	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.	Codex: Blood Angels (4th Edition), pg. 6
Develain, Reclusiarch of the Black Templars	Let the aspirant's first lesson be obedience, for foolishness is bound to his heart. But the Chapter's discipline and the will of the Chaplain shall drive it from him.	White Dwarf 313 (UK), pg. 77
D'Kestrel, Raven Guard Sergeant 1st Company	We go where we wilt. We slay who we wilt. Let the Emperor judge the righteousness of our deeds.	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 62
Rogal Dorn, Primarch of the Imperial Fists	Give me a hundred Space Marines. Or failing that give me a thousand other troops. - attributed	Codex: Space Marines (4th Edition), pg. 2 - Introduction
	The Emperor has no like, Loken. There are no gods in this hollow universe to keep him company. So he made us, demi-gods, to stand beside him. I have never quite come to terms with my status. Does that surprise you? I see what I am capable of, and what is expected of me, and I shudder. The mere fact of me frightens me sometimes.	Horus Rising (Novel), Part One, ch. 6, pg. 134
	Don't be insulted, but there is something very human about you, Loken, for an Astartes.	Horus Rising (Novel), Part One, ch. 6, pg. 136
	-If the Warmaster has turned his back on Terra, what are my orders? Tell him his brother Rogal will have him answer for it. - to First Captain Sigismund	The Flight of the Eisenstein (Novel), ch. 14, pg. 348
	If there is nobility remaining within Konrad's Legion, then it is hidden deeply beneath too many layers of twisted lusts, deviance, and disobedience. Their ways are foolish, ill-considered and a hindrance to the orderly flow of controlled war. The time is coming when the Night Lords must answer for their behaviour and be brought back into the doctrine of Imperial warfare, lest we lose them to their own deviant hungers.	Soul Hunter (Novel), Part One, ch. 6, pg. 123
	- No plan survives contact with the enemy. Then you're not making the right plans. - attributed, in retort to Lion El'Jonson	I Am Slaughter (Novel), ch. Six
	There is no enemy. The foe on the battlefield is merely the manifestation of that which we must overcome. He is doubt, and fear, and despair. Every battle is fought within. Conquer the battlefield that lies inside you, and the enemy disappears like the illusion he is. - attributed	Seventh Retribution (Novel), K-Day + 11 Days, pg. 158
	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. - attributed	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 333
Dek’Naru, Reiver of the Salamanders	If our appearance sows fear, then let us reap a harvest, brothers. If the enemy quails before our ashen visages, then let it be a foreshadowing of their blackened corpses. And if they tremble at the embers of our eyes, let their terror overwhelm them as we strike, our combat knives slicing through their kin like drake teeth. Our distance to Humanity is no burden, but a tool, crafted for duty.	Codex Supplement: Salamanders (8th Edition), pg. 57
Garnon Daar, Iron Father of the Iron Hands	There can only ever be one answer to weakness, and that is the mercy of death. This, and this alone, is the only such mercy in our gift.	Codex Supplement: Iron Hands (8th Edition), pg. 31
Denallus, Veteran Sergeant of the Ultramarines	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.	Codex Supplement: Ultramarines (8th Edition), pg. 62
Utorian Denash, Watch Master of Fort Pykman	I am vigilance. I am the hunter’s patience and the castellan’s fortitude. I am the burning brand that banishes the shadows, the shield that holds the monsters at bay and the sword that pierces their foul black hearts. I am oath, duty, victory. I am the Deathwatch, and my vigil shall never end.	Codex: Deathwatch (8th Edition), pg. 30
Haakon Draugrsbane, Captain of the Space Wolves	This foul rock has haunted our space for far too long, and by my hammer Doombringer we will shatter it and empty the vermin inside once and for all! For Russ! For the Eternal Vigil!	Deathwatch: The Achilus Assault, pg. 61
Drusani, Sergeant of the Blood Angels 1st Company	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.	Codex: Blood Angels (8th Edition), pg. 122

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Speaker	Quote	Source
The Emperor of Mankind	They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them, and in the furnace of war forge them. They will be of iron will and steely muscle. In great armour shall I clad them and with the mightiest guns will they be armed. They will be untouched by plague or disease, no sickness will blight them. They will have tactics, strategies and machines so that no foe can best them in battle. They are my bulwark against the Terror. They are the Defenders of Humanity. They are my Space Marines and they shall know no fear. – on the Creation of the Space Marines	The Horus Heresy Book One - Betrayal, pg. 26
Ekene Dubaku, Chapter Master of the Celestial Lions	Though we are broken, our oaths yet bind us. We are the Lions of Elysium, and as long as a single warrior in our heraldry draws breath, we will uphold our vow to watch over Elara’s Veil. For the fallen Scorpions. For the Spears still fighting. For the Adeptus Vaelarii.	Spears of the Emperor (Novel), Book Three, pg. 176
Lion El'Johnson, Primarch of the Dark Angels	Look to your brothers. Know their hearts as you know your own. For if you do not, then all will be broken and lost to darkness. - attributed	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 335

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Speaker	Quote	Source
Fafnir Rann, Captain of the Imperial Fists Legion and founder of the Executioners Space Marine Chapter	You may cleave to your courage but that will fail you, look to your weapons but you will find them not enough. Run, fight, hide, pray, cry out or cover - it does not matter, for we are come.	Imperial Armour Volume Ten - The Badab War - Part Two, pg. 84
Ferdina, Captain and Lord of the Marches of the Tigers Argent	We face greenskin invasion rimward, Eldar raiding coreward, rebellion trailing and the tendrils of a Hive Fleet incoming spinward. Situation excellent, attacking on all fronts...	Deathwatch: Rites of Battle, pg. 36
Malkaan Feirros, Master of the Forge of the Iron Hands	Heretics. Stand against us and we shall crush you. Capitulate, and we shall purge you for your weakness. Flee from us and we shall pursue you untiring until you can run no further. Attempt to trick us, to outmanoeuvre or misdirect us and by our logic we shall see through your pitiful ruse. There is no version of events in which you survive what now comes... - Iron Father Feirros before the Scouring of Omshep	Codex Supplement: Iron Hands (8th Edition), pg. 63
Furio, Brother-Captain of the Blod Angels	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.	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 153

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Source	Quote	Notes
Erikon Gaius, Captain of the Ultramarines 21st Company	For Ultramar and for duty, For past and for future, For Terra and the Emperor, No brother falls forgotten. - Last rites of the Ultramarines	Garro: Oath of Moment (Audio Book), Track 4: In The Tunnel
	Kinsmen, we are being tested. We cannot know what madness has overcome Lorgar, we do not know the fate of our brothers and our primarch. But what we do know is duty. Our duty is to hold this approach to the city, to deny it to the enemy. These were Guilliman's last words to us. Meles gave his life in service of that command, and if called, then so shall we. - during the Battle of Calth	Garro: Oath of Moment (Audio Book), Track 4: In The Tunnel
Nathaniel Garro, Death Guard Captain	My name is Nathaniel Garro, and I am a Legion of One.	Garro: Oath of Moment (Audio Book), Track 3: The Field of Battle
	-You court death, Garro, like some ancient Knight-Errant. -That's as good a title as any, Brother. - exchange between Tylos Rubio and Garro, after Rubio's Captain demanded Garro's name and rank	Garro: Oath of Moment (Audio Book), Track 7: Something Approaches
Gathein, Primaris Epistolary of the Avenging Sons Chapter	You are scaring the serfs. Calm, brother.	Archmagos (Novel), Chapter 26
Gerhart, Black Templars	Yes, I have a damn question... what wars must there be in creation that require warriors like you? - as Aspirant Raclaw, on his first sight of a Space Marine	Damnation Crusade (Graphic Novel), ch. One
Gerlach, Black Templars Dreadnought	The Emperor's realm must be cleansed of the taint of the xenos and the heretic. We destroy the former by the sword, we shall destroy the latter through faith and the sword. - to the warriors of the Donorian Crusade	Saved Archive GW page (dated December 2005, last accessed 13 October 2016)
Adar Geronan, Imperial Fists Sergeant 4th Company	Raise the flag high. Let those degenerates know who comes to claim their lives this day!	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 55
Ghalis, Deathwatch Brother Sergeant	How many have given their lives in service to Humanity, their names never to be recorded, their deeds never to be celebrated? The Deathwatch seek not laurels; it is sufficient that the Emperor knows our names and our deeds. - (three days before his death at the claws of an Uberlord of the Nebulax Diaspora.)	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 304
Gideon, Black Templars Marshal, Mephistari Crusade	Those who are pure of heart and strong of faith have nothing to fear from the Black Templars, this is true. But who then, amongst the heaving, sinful masses of Humanity, can truly count themselves as safe from our wrath?	Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition Rulebook, pg. 50
Golgaar, Sergeant of Iron Hands Clan Company Raukaan	Divest yourself of mercy, for mercy is a weakness. Divest yourself of compassion. for compassion is a weakness. Divest yourself of hope, for hope is a weakness. When nothing remains within but hate, and the purity of your purpose, then you will be strong.	Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition Rulebook, pg. 41
Gonzago, Chaplain	Bravery is stronger than Adamantium. One is the stuff of the soul-forges, the other an illusion of safety created by fools. Adamantium walls cannot keep us out! We have the courage of the Emperor! And in the Emperor's name... ATTACK!! ATTACK!! NO PRISONERS!! – during Operation Carthage (the second pacification of Isstvan V)	Warhammer 40,000 Compendium, pg. 22, Warhammer Siege, pg. 109
Cadmus Gracchus, Chaplain of the Imperial Fists	Ability is not enough. Dedication is not enough. Even victory is not enough. To become one of our number, you must embody all of these, and yet be more still. What that more is I cannot tell you. Find the answer in your bones, in your heart and soul, and you will be a warrior. -from an adress to the 10th Company	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 108
Franz Grenzstein, Librarian of the Imperial Fists	We of the Librarium must be aware of Chaos. Yet we do not ourselves aim to contend with Chaos, unless compelled to.	Space Marine (Novel), ch. Fifteen
	Don’t confuse gratitude for a serendipitous event with any cloying compassion towards the author of that event...
	True justice is quite simply the will of the Emperor.
	The Chaos Power known as Tzeentch conceives plans to alter history schemes which are altogether too devious and far-flung for any human being to hope to comprehend.
Skold Greypelt, of the Space Wolves	It is the way of Fenris. We stay as long as we can. Fight as hard as we can. Kill as much as we can. Only when we can do no more do we move on. – on Shadrac	Lone Wolves (Graphic Novel), pg. 54
	You ask a lot of questions, Marlin. You know what I think? I think you need another drink. – on Shadrac to Sergeant Marlin of the Xth Slavok Regiment	Lone Wolves (Graphic Novel), pg. 55
	Do you ever go into a fight thinking there's no point giving my best, I'll get another chance later? We only ever get one shot, Marlin. Life is one shot. Making it count is all that matters. – on Shadrac to Sergeant Marlin of the Xth Slavok Regiment	Lone Wolves (Graphic Novel), pgs. 84-85
Grimaldus, Chaplain of the Black Templars, hero of Hive Helsreach	Let a wave of repugnance for the enemy wash over you. Let hatred fill you. Hate is good, for our goal is a Human galaxy. We are called by the Emperor with a sacred duty to conquer it in His name. – at the Sermon of Harnoth	White Dwarf 311 (US), pg. 25, Assault on Cephian IV
	To the darkness, I bring fire. To the ignorant, I bring faith. Those who welcome these gifts may live, but I will visit naught but death and eternal damnation on those who refuse them.	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 38
Logan Grimnar, Great Wolf of the Space Wolves	Logan Grimnar, Bloody-Handed Warrior He piles the skulls of his enemies He builds a mound of the fallen His foes weep rivers of blood Logan Grimnar, strong wolf of the pack His Sword hungers for red flesh His guns thirst for battle He laughs amidst the war-din Logan Grimnar, father of wolves His sons haunt his enemies Slay them where they falter And bring their pelts to Fenris. - from The Saga Of The Old Wolf (excerpt)	Codex: Space Wolves (5th Edition), pg. 58
	Follow me, Sons of Russ! This night our enemies shall feel the fangs of the Wolf! – during the Assault on Fort Damnation	Codex: Space Wolves (5th Edition), Back Cover
Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines	Whatever the Emperor's will is, be sure it will find you out. - attributed	Nightbringer (Novel), ch. Eleven
	Let them bestride the galaxy like the gods of old, sheltering Mankind from destruction at the hands of an uncaring universe. - from the teachings of Guilliman, as laid down in the Apocrypha of Skaros, on the Space Marines	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 31
	It is the great irony of the Legiones Astartes: engineered to kill to achieve a victory of peace that they can then be no part of. - shortly before the Battle of Calth	Know No Fear (Novel), Target//Acquisition, ch. 3, pg. 30
	Space Marines excel at warfare because they were designed to excel at everything. Each of you will become a leader, a ruler, the master of your world and, because there is no more fighting to be done, you will bend your transhuman talents to governance and culture. - shortly before the Battle of Calth	Know No Fear (Novel), Target//Acquisition, ch. 3, pg. 30
	Never wish for danger. Danger needs no help. There is no such thing as fate that can be tempted, but morale is never improved by an active lust for war. - Remark 56.xxi	Know No Fear (Novel), Target//Acquisition, ch. 3, pg. 40
	Two things to note there, Sergeant. One is that there is no such thing as a minor detail. Information is victory. One cannot and should not dismiss any data until one is in a position to evaluate its significance, and that only comes with hindsight. So all detail is important until circumstances render it redundant.	Know No Fear (Novel), Target//Acquisition, ch. 8, pg. 94
	My brother, hear me. Warriors of the XVII Legion, hear me. This violence is against the code of the Legiones Astartes and against the will of our father, the Emperor. In the name of the Five Hundred Worlds of Ultramar, I implore you to cease fire and stand down. Open communication with me. Let us speak. Let us settle this. This action is an error of the most tragic kind. Cease fire. I, Roboute Guilliman, give you my solemn pledge that we will deal with each other frankly and fairly if these hostilities can be suspended. I urge you to respond. - vox transmission, Battle of Calth, Mark 0.00.01	Know No Fear (Novel), System//Kill, ch. 1, pg. 167
	Lorgar of Colchis. You may consider the following. One: I entirely withdraw my previous offer of solemn ceasefire. It is cancelled, and will not be made again, to you or to any other of your motherless bastards. Two: you are no longer any brother of mine. I will find you, I will kill you, and I will hurl your toxic corpse into hell's mouth. - vox transmission, Battle of Calth, Mark 1.57.42	Know No Fear (Novel), System//Kill, ch. 3, pg. 195
	What does not kill me... is not trying hard enough.[Note 1]	Know No Fear (Novel), Ushkul//Thu, ch. Two, pg. 348
	They shall be pure of heart and strong of body, untainted by doubt and unsullied by self-aggrandisement. They will be bright stars on the firmament of battle, Angels of Death whose shining wings bring swift annihilation to the enemies of Man. So it shall be for a thousand times for a thousand years, unto the very end of eternity and the extinction of mortal flesh. Codex Astartes opening	Codex: Space Marines (6th Edition) (e-book), pg. 246 Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 11
	I am the fist, clenched tight in ceramite, smashing with the force of a Legion. I am the blade, awaiting my foe’s flesh, as keen as the Emperor could make me. I am the bolt, fired from afar – fleet and true, an end to all who stand before the Imperium of Man. - reference to raise the combat confusion with clarity, to banish doubt and reinforce a legionary’s purpose	The Honoured (Novella), ch. Two
	For the Emperor stands behind his sons as the primarchs behind their captains. It is a captain’s duty to place legionary lives in harm’s way before his own. There is too little glory in the galaxy to go around and officers must be generous in the trust they place in others – for one day such brothers must be captains too. - about the promotion of the newly assigned Space Marines	The Honoured (Novella), ch. Five
	Surrender. Retreat. Failure. These things are anathema to me just as they are to my sons. The Imperium is a realm beset, yet still the Emperor sits upon his throne and still the spirit of Humanity burns strong. Our destiny lies not in surrender but in conquest; not in retreat but in relentless advance; not in failure but in victory, and the survival of the Emperor’s realm! So now do I swear.	Codex Supplement: Ultramarines (8th Edition), pg. 38
	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 Chapter Master of my loyal and noble Ultramarines is most emphatically not one of them.	Codex Supplement: Ultramarines (8th Edition), pg. 64
Ghol’kwe, Veteran Sergeant of the Salamanders	The weapon you carry today is as much apart of your squad, your company, as the warriors who stand shoulder to shoulder with you in the crucible of battle. Honour its victories, maintain its warrior spirit, dedicate oaths of brotherhood to its name. The weapon you carry today has been forged in fire as you have. It has been crafted with consummate skill, has endured the anvil of war and has thrown down the Emperor’s enemies as you have. The weapon you carry today is feared by our foes, for it is a harbinger of death, as you are	Codex Supplement: Salamanders (8th Edition), pg. 15
G’narr, Apothecary of the Salamanders	The Imperium is a vast domain. There may yet be Chapters, having fought in darkness for millennia to protect pockets of Mankind, in whose veins runs Vulkan’s vital strength. Who knows, too, if amongst the lauded Ultima Founding we have kin? Though they are not Nocturne-bred, my hearts lift at the thought of distant foes brought low by resolute warriors of noble mien.	Codex Supplement: Salamanders (8th Edition), pg. 52
Blaan Gihl, Iron Father of the Iron Hands	We must be one brotherhood. Unflagging. Unfaltering. United in purpose. Those who cannot abide by the will of this council must seek their own future, lest they bring ruin unto us all.	Codex Supplement: Iron Hands (8th Edition), pg. 29
Barrgus Ghorrean, of the Iron Hands	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.	Codex Supplement: Iron Hands (8th Edition), pg. 52
Garrvac, Veteran of Deathwatch	When I fought the alien scourge alongside my brother Iron Hands, I was but a warrior. Now, as a Veteran of the Deathwatch, I am a weapon, optimised to slaughter xenos in the Emperor’s name.	Codex: Deathwatch (8th Edition), pg. 42
Galano, Chapter Master of the Blood Angels (deceased)	WHERE THE FOE COMES ON IN GREAT NUMBER, STRIKE THE HEAD FROM THE BEAST AND THEN BLEED IT DRY. WHERE THE FOE RAINS FIRE FROM AFAR, STRIKE WITH ALL THE SPEED AND SURETY OF SANGUINIUS’ BLADE. WHERE THE FOE COWERS WITHIN THEIR FASTNESS, SOAR HIGH UPON THE ANGEL’S WINGS AND TURN THEIR FORTRESS IN TO THEIR TOMB. WHERE THE FOE CONJURES FORTH THE FOULNESS OF THE WARP, THERE LET THE PRIMARCH’S GIFT BE A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS. AND WHERE THE FOE MUST SURELY PREVAIL, THERE SEND FORTH THE FALLEN ONES THAT THEIR DEATHS MAY WREST VICTORY FROM DEFEAT. - From the collected writing of Chapter Master Galano	Codex: Blood Angels (8th Edition), pg. 134

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Source	Quote	Notes
Haegr, Space Wolves	- It's funny. That time when you saved old Adrian from those fanatics I thought I heard him offer you your heart's desire. He would have sent you home if you asked. Instead you asked for a meat pie. -...It was a big pie. - with Torin the Wayfarer	Wolfblade (Novel), ch. Six
Hassar, Cadian 7th Colonel	Fenrisians are taught to value comradeship and loyalty to their tribes from birth. Within the Space Wolves, their loyalty is given to their Wolf Lord and the Company of his followers. As warrior-barbarians they set great store by personal bravery and great deeds, having little but contempt for authority that is bestowed rather than earned through the proven virtues of combat.	Codex: Space Wolves (5th Edition), pg. 33
Helbrecht, High Marshal of the Black Templars	Where the Neophyte sees only the difficulties and the Initiate only the advantages in any great enterprise, the hero sees both.	White Dwarf 313 (UK), pg. 79
Heledorn, Imperial Fists Brother-Captain	Stand fast brothers! We are the Emperor’s Fist, closed and ready to strike! - at the Battle of Broken Scythes	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 213
Heliates, Deathwatch Chaplain	Three Corvus Blackstars fell upon Karnat, slipping undetected through the planet’s atmosphere and delivering their deadly passengers into the heart of the Aeldari enclave. As battle raged, the aircraft swooped overhead, black shadows of death. As dawn broke they were gone, and their passengers with them, leaving naught but ruin in their wake. - Chaplain Heliates, on the battle of Karna	Codex: Deathwatch (8th Edition), pg. 87
Balthazar von Heppel, Ministorum Adept	The Space Wolves have already proven their ability to stave off the most determined attacks on their realm, so overt action is out of the question. However, I believe that it is imperative that they are closely monitored for signs of abomination.	Codex: Space Wolves (5th Edition), pg. 30
	Of all the Primarchs, the end of Leman Russ is the most mysterious, for he is accounted to have vanished ten thousand years ago. One of the most fundamental of the Space Wolves' tenets is the belief that their Primarch will eventually return for the final battle at the end of the universe.	Codex: Space Wolves (5th Edition), pg. 9
Helveticus, Ancient of the Ultramarines Honour Guard	A foe without honour is a foe already beaten.	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 53
Holt, Commissar	Space Marines are men in the same way a knife is a piece of metal. Space Marines are forged, not born. They are the finest weapons of the Emperor’s will.	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 22
Ulfric Hoodclaw, Space Wolves	Guard your tongue, whelp, lest I cut it out. I care not for your moon-touched ramblings, nor for the tales of your grandmother. Mark this well - of the 13th Company we do not speak.	Codex: Space Wolves (5th Edition), pg. 17
Gyvan Hul, Seneschal of the Rogue Trader vessel Frozen Talon	A Space Marine is not born, but made by the good grace of the Emperor from flesh, blood, and a will to do the Master of Mankind’s bidding.	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 202
Hyperion, Grey Knights	The Wolves aren't animals. No beast is bound by honour, nor does it sacrifice itself for others outside its pack.	The Emperor's Gift (Novel), ch. Twenty-Four, pg. 284

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Speaker	Quote	Source
Sergeant Daegon Incursa, Invaders 1st Company	The deeds of one bold warrior can alter the course of a battle. I have four such men under my command and our every deed changes the shape of the galaxy.	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 63
Saul Invictus, First Captain of the Ultramarines	Praise the sun that brings the dawn of our final doom. - from The Lament of the First, purported last words	The Chapter's Due (Novel), ch. Twenty-Three
Credo of the Iron Hands	So it was in the beginning; so ever it shall be.	Warhammer 40,000 Compendium, pg. 129
Principle Lessons of the Iron Hands	Only the spirit is pure. The mind may be swayed, the body may fail. Only the soul cradles vengeance purely. Become the weapon of the soul. Where the mind hesitates, overcome it. Where the body fails, replace it. Aspire to the condition of the Primarch. Emulate his union with steel. Never waver. Never retreat. Never doubt. The flesh is weak. The weak shall be purged. What remains is strength.	Wrath of Iron (Novel), ch. 12
Ignerious, Epistolary of Deathwatch	The witches of the xenos races use their abilities with reckless abandon, rending reality like the beasts they are. Ours is a purer power, our minds sanctified by the Emperor himself, our souls fortified in adamant and iron. Thus we bestride the battlefield of the empyrean like conquering heroes, and the filthy aliens scatter before us like shadows before a burning brand.	Codex: Deathwatch (8th Edition), pg. 100

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Source	Quote	Notes/Context
Mad Chainsaw Johnson, White Scars Commander	Problems? Problems? There is no problem I cannot solve with this... – attributed	White Dwarf 93 (UK), pg. 40, Warhammer 40,000

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Speaker	Quote	Source
Ursus Kane, Captain of the Iron Hands' 3rd Company	To kill your foe, you must understand your foe.	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 92
Pedro Kantor, Chapter Master of the Crimson Fists	We have been wounded sorely. Yet still we stand, with fire in our eyes and valour in our hearts. Let them think us beaten. We shall teach them otherwise.	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 29
Euphrati Keeler, Remembrancer	-Why do you weep? Is it for us? -For him, Nathaniel, because he can't. Today you and I have broken a brother's heart, and nothing will ever mend it. - after showing proof of Horus's treachery on Isstvan III to Rogal Dorn	The Flight of the Eisenstein (Novel), ch. Fourteen, pg. 341
Kell, Dark Angels Sergeant	-This is the holy bolter. It is a 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. - to his Scout Squad	Deathwatch core Rulebook, pg. 28
Jaghatai Khan, Primarch of the White Scars	Do not value strength and power too much, for they alone are no guarantee of victory. Value speed and accuracy first: If you do this, then power and strength will do naught but snap at your heels. - attributed	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 335
Kor'sarro Khan, Khan of the White Scars 3rd Company, Master of the Hunt	Surround yourself with the greatest warriors at your command, or cower in the deepest and darkest hole you can find. It matters not. I shall take your head for the Great Khan and for the Emperor.	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 94
	Run from us, we will chase you down and take your head. Stand and fight, we will salute you, encircle you, and slay you like beasts. Surrender to us and we will reward your cowardice with a swift and painless end. Understand that you are not our foes; you are our prey, and you will meet your end as such.	Codex Supplement: White Scars (8th Edition), pg. 52
Ancient Kryll, Space Wolves Dreadnought	Yes, my lord, you could order the Long Fangs to engage the Orks from that ridge. That's what we did at Karnax 17, and it cost the lives of three entire packs. I advise a direct, frontal assault by the Dreadnoughts, followed by the second wave of the Great Company's kin. If that doesn't smash these greenskins back to the stinking pits of Octavius then I'll answer to the Allfather in person.	Imperial Armour Volume Two - Second Edition: War Machines of the Adeptus Astartes, pg. 164
Major Goff Kurtane, 9th Radial Sarpoy Regiment	I, for one, was bloody glad to see the Snakes power in. Beautiful bastards, they are. I owe them my life and my soul. – after the battle of Ambold Eleven	The Sabbat Worlds Crusade (Background Book), pg. 24
Akjai Kor'Varis, Reiver Sergeant of the Raven Guard	So many of our brother Chapters take pride in weathering the fury of the foe. They proclaim their resilience and their endurance under fire. We of the Raven Guard make no such claims. Our enemies are dead long before they have the chance to subject us to such needless punishment.	Codex Supplement: Raven Guard (8th Edition), pg. 56
Kalae Korvydae, Shadow Captain of the Raven Guard 10th Company	Corax knew his sons, for he knew himself. More than any other Primarch, he saw his own limitations and failings, and took what steps he could to save us from them. This was his greatest legacy. It is why we walk the Trifold Path that shields our souls from the sorrow and fury of the Sable Brand. It is why we master shadow, ambush and vigilance. It is why our enemies perceive their peril only when they cannot hope to escape it.	Codex Supplement: Raven Guard (8th Edition), pg. 57
Shavorin Kalendus, Primaris Epistolary of the Raven Guard	Doubtless there are those who believe that such an insubstantial thing as darkness cannot compare to the explosive shells of a bolt rifle or the weighty impact of a thunder hammer. Let them. It only makes their dismay all the greater when their own shadow, trusted companion that it has been for all of their days, rises up like the spectre of damnation to wrap insubstantial fingers around their throat and begins to squeeze...	Codex Supplement: Raven Guard (8th Edition), pg. 62
Shoran Kord, Intercessor of the Imperial Fists	What great power it is, to split rock with thought! Never has my faith in Primarch and Emperor been more affirmed as when Epistolary Markov brought the fell keep of Arcton’s walls crashing down with but a glance. Within hours it was ours, all its depraved occupants dead.	Codex Supplement: Imperial Fists (8th Edition), pg. 62
Karrsak, Iron Father of the Iron Hands	There are those who call us cruel. For assessing the military value of those who cry for aid, for disdaining those too weak to look to their own survival, we are damned by countless bleeding hearts. Yet who truly is more cruel? He who saves only those who make him strong, or he who squanders his might in self aggrandising mercy-missions and thus stands helpless when the enemy strikes their final blow? There can be only one logical solution to this cogitation.	Codex Supplement: Iron Hands (8th Edition), pg. 57
Gryvuus Krohl, Librarian of the Iron Hands	To commune with the spirit of the machine as we do is to see its soul unlike any other can. Every Predator, Vindicator and Impulsor is a battle-brother, as eager to vanquish the foe as we.	Codex Supplement: Iron Hands (8th Edition), pg. 62
Jaghatai Khan, Primarch of the White Scars	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! - Jaghatai Khan, the Last Charge of Galathamar	Codex Supplement: White Scars (8th Edition), pg. 6
	My sons. More than ceventy years since we cast the traitors 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. - Fragments of Jaghatai Khan’s address to his sons ahead of the Battle of Corusil	Codex Supplement: White Scars (8th Edition), pg. 27
Vorgha Khan, Khan of the White Scars 8th Company	Many of our cousins refuse to retreat. They see it as dishonourable. They are fools. Ten thousand victories have started with a retreat. The only dishonour is in not coming back.	Codex Supplement: White Scars (8th Edition), pg. 19
Jubal Khan, Great Khan of the White Scars	Long before, when we roamed the Empty Quarter amongst the folk of our tribes, there were storms to be weathered. They were ferocious, these storms, violent, tearing apart the ger, scattering the yat... yet we endured them, and we shall endure this. For then we were but men. Now we are the sons of the Great Khan, the tribe of the Warhawk himself, and no storm shall be our undoing. - Jubal Khan, upon learning of Huron Blackheart’s approach	Codex Supplement: White Scars (8th Edition), pg. 33
Kyublai Khan, Great Khan of the White Scars (Missing)	Ravening swarms of xenos monsters; warp-wielding heretic warlords and turncoat filth; the ancient and the eldritch, the bestial and the unnatural, and all the myriad foes of Mankind; they are all just prey to be hunted, trophies to be taken, foes to be vanquished for the glory of the Great Khan and the Emperor both. It is we who shall do the vanquishing.	Codex Supplement: White Scars (8th Edition), pg. 62
Barutai Khan, Khan of the White Scars 2nd Company	Focus upon the foes you see before you, but be mindful always that even the open plain can conceal an army. Guard your flanks, watch the horizon and remain mobile. In this way you will ever be the hunter, and never the prey. - Barutai Khan, reading from the writings of Jaghatai Khan	Codex Supplement: White Scars (8th Edition), pg. 56
Nikhola Kalus, Inquisitor of the Ordo Xenos	Knowledge is a sword, as sharp in hilt as it is in edge and commensurately dangerous to those without the skill or strength to wield it. One hopes that the Ultramarines understand this, and that they possess the requisite qualities to handle the blade they have drawn. Still, we of the Ordo Xenos will be watching. Closely.	Codex Supplement: Ultramarines (8th Edition), pg. 47
Khaj’katai of White Scars, Veteran of Deathwatch	In the breach at Caltagula the Tyranids outnumbered us thirty to one. It hardly seemed a fair fight... for them.	Codex: Deathwatch (8th Edition), pg. 43
Arenos Karlaen, Captain of the Blood Angels 1st Company	They fall upon our enemies like Sanguinius’ own fury, angels of vengeance with wings of fire and fists full of killing thunder.	Codex: Blood Angels (8th Edition), pg. 40
	It is a blessed thing, to bear the blood of the Great Angel within one's veins. And yet it is a burden, too. We fight not only against the Emperor's foes, but against the Flaw that seeks to claim our souls. The shadow of death looms over us, but we do not retreat from it. Instead we meet the darkness as did the Primarch, with all the righteous fury of avenging angels.	Codex Supplement: Blood Angels (10th Edition), pg. 76

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Speaker	Quote	Source
Leitz, Exorcists Captain	'We shall never rest while a single renegade draws breath. Let them fear our names.'	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 31
Garviel Loken, Luna Wolves Captain	Brother... kinsman... every time the death comes closer, but still I am rejected. Do you know why? Will you not tell me? Death took you! Why not me? WHY NOT ME?! - on Isstvan III	Garro: Legion of One (Audio Book), Track: Cerberus Alone
Darnath Lysander, Captain of the Imperial Fists 1st Company	Brothers! It falls to us to rebuild that which was broken. To remake the glorious Bastion Imperialis that was the Primarch’s dream and duty. The flesh and bone of Mankind itself will be the rampart; the blood of traitors and heretics the mortar that binds the fastness as one. We will bring light to the dark of the Imperium Nihilus, and glory to the Emperor!	Codex Supplement: Imperial Fists (8th Edition), pg. 6
	Gaze upon the deeds of old, brothers, but remember always that the triumphs of history are naught but ash unless reconsecrated by the blood and valour of the present, in every battle of every war. Our ancestors stood witness at the birth of the Emperor’s dream. Our inheritors will see that dream complete!	Codex Supplement: Imperial Fists (8th Edition), pg. 12
	I have spoken to many who proclaim this an age of darkness, saying that only pride sustains us in its grasp. Perhaps that is so, but I will see the Emperor’s Light shine again, even if I must topple every fortress, crush every traitorous warlord, and grind ten thousand worlds to dust. These words I speak not out of pride, but out of duty. Duty to Primarch, to Emperor, and to Mankind itself.	Codex Supplement: Imperial Fists (8th Edition), pg. 34
	I have travelled far and seen much. Yet nothing warms my heart so much as the sight of a gun so massive that its fury makes the very world tremble. - attributed	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 73
	My kind were created to feel no fear, but we understand it. We were all once men who felt fear as does anyone else, and we must know it because it is a weapon we wield.	Malodrax (Novel), ch. Ten, pg. 229
Alars Lydoro, Captain of the Imperial Fists 4th Company	Let the skies roar and the world tremble! I come to this place with the Emperor’s fury in my soul, and I shall not be denied! - Captain Alars Lydoro, at the Conquest of Brax	Codex Supplement: Imperial Fists (8th Edition), pg. 15
Pasanius Lysane, Ultramarines 4th Company Sergeant	- That's why you summoned us here. To know where we came from is to know where we are and where we are going. - You do not say much, Pasanius Lysane, but when you speak, it is worthwhile to listen. - I'm a sergeant, my lord. It's what I do. - to Chief Librarian Varro Tigurius	Courage and Honour (Novel), ch. Three
Lauraedian, Veteran of Deathwatch	In the Emperor’s name I have fought across burning plains and amidst lightning-wreathed peaks, in the cold void of space and through the ruins of cities laid low. I have done battle with the mutant, the heretic and the alien, and I have become their bane.	Codex: Deathwatch (8th Edition), pg. 41

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Speaker	Quote	Source
Lord Solar Macharius	If they are so eager to die, and they will not heed the advice of their superiors, then let them rush headlong into the jaws of the lion. We can only hope some of them get caught in its throat. - on the Space Wolves	Codex: Space Wolves (5th Edition), pg. 32
Malcador the Sigillite	But without a purpose, an Astartes is nothing. A warrior without a war is no warrior at all. - to Battle-Captain Garro	Garro: Oath of Moment (Audio Book), Track 5: Flashback
Ferrus Manus, Primarch of the Iron Hands	They are not my hands. This fact is forgotten by my brothers - inexplicably, it has always seemed to me. The hands are strong, to be sure, and have created great things for us all, but they are not mine. And that counts for something.They forget that the silver on my arms comes from a beast that I vanquished. It is the mark of a great evil that I ended, and yet it persists within me... I would struggle to remove it now... I will not remove the silver from my flesh because I have learned to depend on it. The fault is with my mind. I rely on the augmentation given to me by my metal gauntlets, so much so that the flesh beneath them is now little more than a distant memory... A day will come when I will strip it from me, lest I lose the power to master myself forever. Already my Legion's warriors replace their shield hands with metal in my honour, and so they too are learning to doubt the natural strength of their bodies. They must be weaned off this practice before it becomes a mania for them. Hatred of what is natural, of what is human, is the first and greatest of the corruptions. So I record it here: when the time comes, I will strip my hands of their unnatural silver. I will instruct my Legion to recant their distrust of the flesh. I will turn then away from the gifts of the machine and bid them relearn the mysteries of flesh, bone and blood. When my father's Crusade is over, this shall be my sacred task. When the fighting is done, I shall cure my Legion and myself. For if fighting is all there is, if we may never pause to reflect on what such devotion to strength is doing to us, then our compulsion will only grow. Already I see the madness that path leads to, and so I shall excise the silver from my hands. In doing so I shall weaken myself and my sons, but nonetheless it must be done. The hands are strong, and have created great things, but they are not mine. - The Neimerel Scrolls, attributed	Wrath of Iron (Novel), Preface, pgs. 7-8
	Make war and move on, and again, and again, until nothing breathes which stands against us. All else is sophistry and pretty lies. - on his Legion's role in the Great Crusade	The Horus Heresy Book Two - Massacre, pg. 68
	The weak must be expunged in order for Humanity to survive. Only the strong can be trusted, my sons. Our will must be as steel, our resolve as adamantium; it cannot yield even for a moment. We few have been entrusted with a sacred duty to ensure the Emperor’s reign is eternal. So shall it be, whatever the cost. - Ferrus Manus, speaking to the Iron Hands at the Gorgonos Conclave	Codex Supplement: Iron Hands (8th Edition), pg. 6
	Say what you like about the Fourteenth Legion. They are mean, ugly bastards but tenacious. There’s no one else I’d rather have by my side in a war of attrition, and almost anyone else I’d rather have against me. - Ferrus Manus, after the compliance of One-Five-Four Four	Vulkan Lives (Novel), Chapter Nineteen
	A warrior’s heart should be as iron: Unforgiving, unyielding, and uncaring of all except duty. With such a heart, a warrior can stand against the terrors of the universe unbowed and unbroken. - Attributed to Ferrus Manus	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 328
Surgeon-Commander Grigor Markhava	The duty of the Medic, my Brethren, is a sacred one. We embody the Emperor's divine will and his holy purpose. We bring death and we bring life. Let those true to Humanity's cause give thanks for our work. Let the impure bow down before our swords! – attributed to Markhava, distributed as an exemplary text after he died during the storming of the Bourne slave pits (2150982 M41)	Warhammer 40,000 Compendium, pg. 28
Master of the Apothecarion Aslon Marr	Pain and death are illusions of the weak mind. While his gene-seed returns to the Chapter, a Marine cannot die. Without death, pain loses its relevance. He that may fight, heal him He that may fight no more, give him peace He that is dead, take from him the Chapter's due. – attributed	Warhammer 40,000 Compendium, pg. 29
Iron Thane Mazos Dhule of the Sons of Medusa	I trust these automata-weapons far more than any mortal ally. Their machine spirits have served our Chapter faithfully for centuries, and are sure to stand where mortal hearts succumb to fear. Just like us, they know no fear.	Imperial Armour Volume Two - Second Edition, pg. 198
Chaplain Mikelus of the Blood Ravens	Faith is purest when it is unquestioning.	Dawn of War
	Pain now! Reward in the afterlife.	Dawn of War
Markov, Sergeant of the Imperial Fists	You may call me perverse, but few sights bring me greater joy than that of an enemy’s fortress looming vast and dark before me. It is the nature of Dorn’s sons to relish a challenge, and the higher these heretics raise their spires, the more catastrophic their ruination when we bring them crashing down!	Codex Supplement: Imperial Fists (8th Edition), pg. 56
Maratio, Epistolary of the Blood Angels	It is no secret that the gifts of Sanguinius have grown ever more pronounced amongst our brotherhood as the centuries have passed. Why this should be eludes even the wisest, but I say to you that we should not revile this power. It is a blessing bestowed by the Primarch himself, and nothing that flows from his illustrious legacy could ever be evil. - Epistolary Maratio, during the battle for the Sacred Heights	Codex: Blood Angels (8th Edition), pg. 140

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Speaker	Quote	Source
Nassio, Scout Sergeant of the Blood Angels 10th Company	The wrath you feel within? That is a weapon of last resort. Before you can learn to wield it, to kill with ferocity and abandon, you must first master fighting with skill, subtlety and restraint. After all, my brothers, the honed blade cuts the deepest.	Codex: Blood Angels (8th Edition), pg. 54
Chaplain Fergas Nils	As our bodies are armoured with Adamantium, our souls are protected with our loyalty. As our bolters are charged with death for the Emperor's enemies, our thoughts are charged with his wisdom. As our ranks advance, so does our devotion, for are we not Marines? Are we not the chosen of the Emperor, his loyal servants unto death? – an address to the defenders of Portrein	Warhammer 40,000 Compendium, pg. 21; Warhammer 40,000 5th Edition Rulebook, pg. 20
Artellus Numeon, Captain of the Salamanders Firedrakes	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 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.	Vulkan Lives (Novel), Chapter Ten
Galthor Nox of Mortifactors, Watch Sergeant of Deathwatch	There are those who speak of the xenos in terms of their cultures, their desires and motivations. Such asinine prating misses the point entirely. The xenos can and must be viewed as a singular whole, a disease afflicting the Emperor’s realm. And we, the Deathwatch, are the cure.	Codex: Deathwatch (8th Edition), pg. 94
Nicomaeus, Sanguinary Guard of the Blood Angels	The sons of Sanguinius fear neither heretical abomination nor xenos monstrosity. We have faced the terrors that lurk within our own minds, and seen the snarling beasts that seek to claw their way up from the depths of our souls. What can the foe threaten us with compared to that?	Codex: Blood Angels (8th Edition), pg. 74

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Speaker	Quote	Source
Mersadie Oliton, Remembrancer	If you know no fear, do you also not know awe? Surprise? Majesty? Have you not seen things so bizarre they left you speechless? Shocked you? Unnerved you even? - to Garviel Loken	Horus Rising (Novel), Part Two, ch. Nine, pg. 172
Syras Ordin, Lieutenant of the Raven Guard	We are the shadows that gather around you. We are the darkness that presses close. We are the footstep where there should be none, the sudden blade at your throat, the fear that steals through your body when it is already too late. We are the Raven Guard. We are death.	Codex Supplement: Raven Guard (8th Edition), pg. 52

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Speaker	Quote	Source
Priad of the Iron Snakes	One warrior usually suffices. - to Perdet Suiton Antoni, on Baal Solock	Brothers of the Snake (Novel), Part One - XII
	"Mingle"? What in the Emperor's name does that mean? - after he and Damocles Squad were invited to enjoy themselves at a diplomatic reception on Iorgu	Brothers of the Snake (Novel), Part Six - II, pg. 171
Brother Proteus, Ultramarines 2nd Company	Everything has a purpose. The Emperor ordains it so. You may corrupt the souls of men. But I am steel! I am doom! I march for Macragge, and I know no fear!	Ultramarines - A Warhammer 40,000 Movie
Apothecary Pythol, Ultramarines 2nd Company	Oh, Proteus. You novices are all alike. And I'm the one who has to put you back together. It isn't combat I resent, Brother. It's the thirst for glory that gets men cut to ribbons.
	Death will find you soon enough. War is not about glory. War is about victory!
	May the Emperor bless and protect this sacred legacy, so that the strength of these brave warriors may live on in Ultramarines yet unborn, for the abiding honour of our fortress home, Macragge, in the name of the Chapter and the Primarch, to whom we owe all. -while applying his Reductor to fallen Marines
Brother Proteus and Apothecary Pythol, Ultramarines 2nd Company	-The Emperor protects. -And having a loaded bolter never hurt, either.
Pugilis, Commander of the Iron Knights	We attack without warning, mercy or hesitation. Let the enemies of Mankind know that we will purge every last one of them, and let them shake in fear.	Imperial Armour Volume Two - Second Edition: War Machines of the Adeptus Astartes, pg. 10
Vladimir Pugh, Chapter Master of the Imperial Fists (deceased)	The Imperium is nothing less than the greatest fortress in Human history. Every world is a bastion, a redoubt made mighty by faith and toil. We are the defenders of this fortress, the praetorians who stand watch upon the walls, and who sally out to shatter each new threat as it masses before the Imperium’s gates. While we stand our watch, this realm shall never fall.	Codex Supplement: Imperial Fists (8th Edition), pg. 63

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Speaker	Quote	Source
Captain Iacton Qruze of the Luna Wolves	I'll not be known as a Son of Horus again, mark that well, lad. - to Nathaniel Garro	The Flight of the Eisenstein (Novel), ch. Nine, pg. 229
Aevar Qeld, Shadow Captain of the Raven Guard 5th Company	Give me a confident foe, one who believes in the strength of his warriors and the reach of his own arm. Give me an enemy who will commit swiftly and decisively to his course and forge ahead in the sure knowledge of victory. I will gladly prove his confidence ill-founded, as the ravens’ talons close about his throat and the shadows descend.	Codex Supplement: Raven Guard (8th Edition), pg. 63

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Speaker	Quote	Source
Sergeant Rafen of the Blood Angels	This place was built to destroy something precious to us, something each of us shares, no matter which Primarch or Chapter we call our own. I speak of brotherhood. Bile has isolated us, severed all but the most cursory of contacts. He sows distrust and suspicion, wears you down with the slow grind of mindless days and tormented nights. The bastard wants you to believe you are forgotten. He lies. I am here to tell you that he lies and lies! Look within yourselves, brothers, and you will understand. You have been waiting for this day, even if you did not know it. This day, when you are reminded of who you are. My purpose here is the same as yours, to serve the God-Emperor and Holy Terra! Know that each of you is the harbinger of your own freedom! I say to you all that this day, we are not Blood Angels, Doom Eagles, Space Wolves, Taurans, Salamanders, Crimson Fists... We are one great legion, one heart and one mind! We are the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines, the war gods and terrible swift sword of our Emperor! We are His will, and we have always been so!	Black Tide (Novel), ch. Twelve
Initiate Rammius of the Black Templars	It is the duty of the Initiate to pass on what he has learned of the craft of death and thus pave the way for the heroes of the future.	White Dwarf 313 (UK), pg. 78
Rhetoricus of the Imperial Fists	The Emperor commands us. Dorn guides us. Honour shields us. Fear our name, for it is vengeance.	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 27
Arjac Rockfist of the Space Wolves	As the mountain is Arjac A snow-capped peak His rage overshadows the wounded bear. The Rockfist endures when all seems lost. - from The Saga of Arjac Rockfist	Codex: Space Wolves (5th Edition), pg. 64
Tylos Rubio, Ultramarines 21st Company	-No, NO! You would have me leave the side of my sworn battle-brothers in their darkest hour? I refuse! -It is The Sigillite's command. His word is the Emperor's word. -...The Sigillite's command be damned. You give me no recourse, Garro. And so, on my honour as a son of Macragge, I choose to defy it. Even if it means I will perish here, even if you colour me a rebel like Lorgar's turncoats, I defy it! - Rubio and Nathaniel Garro, during the Battle of Calth	Garro: Oath of Moment (Audio Book), Track 11: Vantage Point
Primarch Leman Russ of the Space Wolves	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. – before his final departure into the Eye of Terror	Book of the Astronomican, pg. 8
	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. For my own part, I come down on the side of courage. For courage can sometimes make a virtue of inexperience. I myself have commanded Imperial Guard troops whose probitor units have achieved great things, because they were too inexperienced to realise that their goal was impossible. – De Natura Belli, Book XIV	Warhammer 40,000 Compendium, pg. 45
	You strive for victory. That is obvious. What may be less obvious is the nature of victory. There are circumstances in which you can destroy the enemy utterly, without loss to your own forces, and yet the victory may be his. In all situations, you must first decide on the nature of victory, and then take steps to secure it. Avoid the instinct of fight first and think later. – attributed, Meditations, Book VI	Adeptus Titanicus Rulebook, pg. 40
	A fortress circumvented ceases to be an obstacle. A fortress destroyed ceases to be a threat. Do not forget the difference. – attributed	Warhammer Siege, pg. 108
	A fortress is built with blood and toil. Only by blood and toil may it be taken. – attributed	Warhammer Siege, pg. 106
	Beat your thoughts to the mould of your will. – attributed	Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, pg. 76
	There are those who undervalue the Penal Battalions. But they should consider this: should a man who has wronged the Emperor be allowed to wrong Him further? For each man executed is a man who can no longer serve, and to fail in service to the Emperor is the greatest of sins – Meditations on Imperial Command, Book XXI	Warhammer 40,000 Compendium, pg. 148
	Do not underestimate the Squats. They survived for millennia cut off from the Imperium and assailed from all sides. Their determination and resilience is an example to all. – Meditations on Imperial Command, Book XVI	Warhammer 40,000 Compendium, pg. 167
	Harden your soul against decadence. But do not despise it, for the soft appearance of the decadent may be deceptive. One need only consider the Harlequin dancers of the Eldar to see the truth of this proposition. – A Book of Admonitions for the Legiones Astartes	Warhammer 40,000 Compendium, pg. 194
	Here I am and here shall I die. – attributed to Russ at the Battle of Rising Fell	Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, pg. 34
	Arm the bastards and they might win a few bloody worlds for us in between verses. – attributed, grousing about the Remembrancers sent to the front lines during the Great Crusade	Horus Rising (Novel), Part One, ch. 3, pg. 46
	No man nor beast could best the Wolf-King, No tribe could stand against his armies. Within Russ' kingdom a truce Existed between man and wolf, His court was attended by the fiercest of Warlords and the most beautiful of maidens. – from The Saga of the Wolf-King	Codex: Space Wolves (5th Edition), pg. 8
Rhetoricus of the Imperial Fists	DO WE BEMOAN SUCH LOSSES? NO! WE ARE THE FISTS! WE DO NOT NEED TO HIBERNATE OR SPIT VENOM. WE CRUSH OUR ENEMIES! - Teachings of Rhetoricus, upon the losses of Sus-an Membrane and Betcher's Gland.	Codex Supplement: Imperial Fists (8th Edition), pg. 21
Ra’Tsen, Chaplain of the Salamanders	There remain five populated systems behind us, containing billions of the Emperor’s subjects. There yet remain hundreds of these T’au, seeking to enslave them under the pretence of unity. I see the fire in your eyes, my brothers, you who have endured the heinous firepower of the foe. It is not an easy path we tread, not a simple objective we strive for, but it is the one we choose. For Vulkan! For the Emperor! - Chaplain Ra’Tsen, sermons at the Defence of Moyneaux	Codex Supplement: Salamanders (8th Edition), pg. 44
Rheshhan of the Salamanders, 4th Company	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.	Codex Supplement: Salamanders (8th Edition), pg. 56

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Speaker	Quote	Source
Battle-cry of the Salamanders	Into the fires of battle! Unto the anvil of war!	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 26
Sanguinius, Primarch of the Blood Angels Legion	My son... step back, if you can. Step back from the abyss and return to us. I will save you. This is my fault. I am to blame. But I will amend this, if you help me. Will you help me, Alotros?	Fear to Tread (Novel), Prologue: Melchior, pg. 37
	It cries out for blood. And there is never enough. - to Horus, admitting the existence of the Red Thirst	Fear to Tread (Novel), Prologue: Melchior, pg. 42
	-Hear me, creature. Let Meros hear this. Your gambit has failed. Whatever these powers are that you call master, whatever irrational choice my brother Horus has made to seek a pact with them, you stand defeated upon the cusp of victory. Do you understand the reason why? -This one. An exemplar of your kind. You were underestimated. The Thirst would have taken you-- -But it did not. Because as long as one single Blood Angel lives, he will be master of his spirit. He will not let the abyss that lies in the hearts of us all take him into darkness. That is the truth you do not understand, the truth that Horus has forgotten. It is not the descent toward the shadow nor the rise toward the light that makes us superior. It is the endless struggle between the two that greatness of character lies. We are tested, and we do not break. We will never fall! Take that to my brother and tell him! - to the Red Angel on resisting the Red Thirst	Fear to Tread (Novel), ch. 19, pg. 482
	I made a vow, Kano. I will see it to its bloody end. There may come a day, and sooner than we might wish, when you...when my sons will have to go on without me. - to Mkani Kano on his dreams	Fear to Tread (Novel), ch. 20, pg. 500
	There are more things in the darkness than man can ever count.	Space Hulk (Novella), 00.06.99
	There is no sacrifice more noble than to give your life for a cause in which you truly believe. In all the long millennia of Human history, there has never been a worthier cause than that of the Imperium. - Sanguinius, Primarch of the Blood Angels, during his address on Kalmatir	Codex: Blood Angels (8th Edition), pg. 6
Julius Scipio, Deathwatch Librarian and Loremaster of the Kabiri Archives	Be thankful the God-Emperor wills you die but once in His service! Beware those who serve any other, for they shall die a thousand times in the name of their master, and yet shall not know victory!	Deathwatch: The Achilus Assault, ch. 81
Gabriel Seth, Chapter Master of the Flesh Tearers	We are disorder, that is true. But that is what we were made to be. The wild and the random. If each Successor embodies the traits of The Great Angel, then that is what the Flesh Tearers are, just as the Blood Swords are his martial prowess, the Sanguine his secrecy, the Flesh Eaters his carnivore's fangs! But the Blood Angels are the melding of all of those things, and that is why I will always envy you, cousin.	Red Fury (Novel), ch. Thirteen
	For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my battle-brother eternal. - from the initiation rites for Neophyte Flesh Tearers[Note 2]	Red Fury (Novel), Epilogue
Kayvaan Shrike, Shadow Captain of the Raven Guard 3rd Company	In the darkness all men are equal, save those that embrace it.	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 25
	We are coming. Look to the skies for your salvation. - to Commissar Lent prior to the Blindhope planetstrike	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 69
	Wherever you tread, tread lightly. We are closer than you think, and our blades are sharp.	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 92
Cato Sicarius, Captain of the Ultramarines 2nd Company	We are the slayers of kings, the destroyers of worlds, bringers of ruination and death in all its forms. These things we do in the name of the Emperor and in the defense of Mankind. Let none stay our wrath.	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 19
	Brothers! War calls you. Will you answer?	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 85
	Slay the beast and the horde will die.	The Chapter's Due (Novel), ch. 7, pg. 91
Sigismund, First Captain of the Imperial Fists Legion and first High Marshal of the Black Templars	The more we spread the more we find. World after world. New worlds to conquer. Space is limitless, and so is our appetite to master it. - during the Great Crusade	Horus Rising (Novel), Part One, ch. 6, pg. 131
	We will spend our lives fighting to secure this Imperium, and then I fear we will spend the rest of our days fighting to keep it intact. There is such involving darkness amongst the stars. Even when the Imperium is complete, there will be no peace. We will be obliged to fight on to preserve what we have fought to establish. Peace is a vain wish. Our crusade may one day adopt another name, but it will never truly end. In the far future, there will be only war. - during the Great Crusade	Horus Rising (Novel), Part One, ch. 6, pg. 132
	- Do you really think you'd have a hope? Honestly? Your yellow ragamuffins against the best of the best? -Whatever helps you sleep, Tarik. Terra bless us all it is a paradigm that will never be tested. - during the Great Crusade	Horus Rising (Novel), Part One, ch. 6, pg. 133
	Nothing worthwhile is done without challenge, best to overcome it before plans are enacted.	Throneworld (Novel), ch. 12
Techmarine Simagus of the Black Templars	Many great legends lived before Brother Rammius, but most are unmourned and are consigned to unremembered history. Such shall not be the Rammius' fate, for he lives on in glory and, with our ministrations, shall do so for a thousand years and more.	White Dwarf 313 (UK), pg. 80
Battle Litany of the Space Wolves	We are the wolf that stalks The stars in the sky And swallows the star-fire We hide amongst the night When light is gone The Light is within us We run the ruin of Fire In the darkness Foes burn in our passing	Book of the Astronomican, pg. 22
Spiccare, Sergeant of the Blood Angels 1st Company	We ride upon the wings of the storm. What hope of escape can our foes possibly have?	Codex: Blood Angels (8th Edition), pg. 61
Kardan Stronos, Chapter Master of the Iron Hands	I believe in three tenets of battle - firepower, firepower, and more firepower. Should the Omnissiah have wished otherwise, he would not have provided me with such a mighty tool as the Razorback. I long for the day in which my entire Chapter can ride to war in transports such as these, vehicles whose rage can be given voice through their sanctified armament.	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 77
Aethon Shaan, Shadow Captain of the Raven Guard 1st Company	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.	Codex Supplement: Raven Guard (8th Edition), pg. 12
Vorn Saperin, Intercessor of the Imperial Fists	To be bequeathed with Dorn’s legacy is the single greatest burden a warrior can bear. But it is also the greatest honour. Never do I fail to give thanks for it.	Codex Supplement: Imperial Fists (8th Edition), pg. 50
Acchus Skorrn, Iron Father of the Iron Hands	Fury without logic is madness. Logic without fury is impotence. Thus we embody both, making perfect every stroke of the axe and firing of the bolter.	Codex Supplement: Iron Hands (8th Edition), pg. 31
Dvan Skor, Veteran Scout Sergeant of the Storm Wardens	Give me the Scout as a boy, and I'll give you a Battle-Brother as a man.	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 19
Vaedrian Shenol, Watch Master of Watcher Keep	There are those who believe that, because the alien too is threatened by the rise of Chaos, we can somehow find common cause. These xenophiles are heretics who would have us put our trust in the xenos beasts, leaving us helpless as they plunge their blades into our backs. There can be no tolerance, no compromise, no peace with such animals. There can be only war, and the endless purgation of the xenos threat.	Codex: Deathwatch (8th Edition), pg. 6

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Speaker	Quote	Source
Ancient Tahncred	At Lastrati we gathered every Whirlwind in the Crusade and massed them at the gates of Sogoth. At my order, the entire formation opened fire and the night sky blazed as bright as day. Moments later the city was aflame,its defences shattered and its defenders broken. Inly then did Iorder the Assault squads to attack, and then the battle was truly joined.	Imperial Armour Volume Two - Second Edition: War Machines of the Adeptus Astartes, pg. 82
Telamon, Brother-Captain of the Crimson Fists	Those of the xenos that our Predators do not crush beheanth their armoured tread, we shall strike down ourselves with avenging bolt and righteous blade. Onward Crimson Fists, ever onward! - at the Thule Intervention	Imperial Armour Volume Two - Second Edition: War Machines of the Adeptus Astartes, pg. 60
Telion, Scout Sergeant of the Ultramarines 10th Company	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.	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 75
	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.	Codex Supplement: Ultramarines (8th Edition), pg. 66
Tiamach, Deathwatch Venerable Dreadnought, formerly Keeper of the Solemn Archive	Though it has been lifetimes since I last knew true fear, no undertaking inspires such disquiet, such potent unease of the spirit as to venture onto a Space Hulk. To be alone within the carcasses of the lost, it is the truest test of one's mettle, and even amongst the mighty Astartes there are those who have not the stomach for it.	Deathwatch: Ark of Lost Souls, pg. 92
Aeonid Thiel, Sergeant of the Ultramarines 13th Chapter, 135th Company	If he wasn't my brother, he'd be a political embarrassment and an impediment to the effective rule of the Imperium. I know what I'd do with him. I'm sure I could demonstrate how, lord. Was that a joke, sergeant? I may have just made a very unfortunate attempt at humour, lord. It was actually quite funny. - Roboute Guilliman and Thiel, shortly before the Battle of Calth	Know No Fear (Novel), Target//Acquisition, ch. Eight, pg. 95
	- Aeonid Thiel. 135th Company. Marked for censure? - Today started in a different place, Sir. - Thiel and Marius Gage, during the Battle of Calth	Know No Fear (Novel), Target//Engagement, ch. Four, pg. 244
	- Their advantage is shock and surprise. Our counter-advantage must be a lack of convention. - Expand. - They know what we are, for they are us. They know the attributes of our armour and our weapons. They also know our tactics and formulae of war, for our beloved primarch has made his codifications available to all his brothers. We never thought we would need to conceal our combat methods from our own kind. Today, we have been disabused of that notion. So we must fight them in ways that they do not expect from us. We must use the unconventional, the improvised and the makeshift. In order to properly honour the combat teachings of Roboute Guilliman, we must cast his rules aside for the day. - Thiel and Marius Gage, during the Battle of Calth	Know No Fear (Novel), Target//Engagement, ch. Four, pgs. 246-247
Secundus Thryn, Librarian of the Doom Eagles	All of creation suffers, young ones. Only in accepting our own mortality can we make a difference. Only in bearing the burden of our failures can we find the strength to go on. Only in detachment from glory, or honour, or jealousy... from life itself can we hope to spare others from grief. We are Doom Eagles. And we are dead already.	On Mournful Wings (Short Story)
Varro Tigurius, Chief Librarian of the Ultramarines	Each path must be chosen with care, Lest disaster swallow us whole.	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 86
	Never before or since have I seen fighting such as I witnessed when that host fell upon the Orks. Seizing the moment, I regrouped my Company and led them once more into the fray, yet there was little work for us, for the greenskins lacked stomach for the fight. Soon we secured the great bastion once more and without further loss. Of the dark brotherhood there was no sign. - on the Legion of the Damned	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 95
	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. - from the journal of Marneus Calgar, quoting Tigurius, 991.M41	Warlords of the Dark Millennium: Tigurius (Background Book), pg. 3
Tarik Torgaddon, Captain of the Luna Wolves 2nd Company	The answer, always, is the Wolves of Fenris, because they are clinically insane. - during a friendly debate with Imperial Fists Captain Sigismund, about which Space Marine Legion is toughest. (circa M30)	Horus Rising (Novel), Part One, ch. 6, pg. 132
	- You are a base-born cur! - 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. - to Lord Commander Eidolon of the Emperor's Children. (circa M30)	Horus Rising (Novel), Part Two, ch. 6, pg. 297
Nico Trevellias, Captain of the White Consuls	They believe they are too good for the Codex Astartes, these... these wolf-men? Too good for ten millennia of tested and refined battle wisdom? Then let them fight as savages, I say. Let them fight and die. - on the Space Wolves	Codex: Space Wolves (5th Edition), pg. 16
Troos, Marine Psyker (presumably White Scars)	Arm yourselves, fools, the enemy are within us! – last statement, FivesEye Campaign	Book of the Astronomican, pg. 66
Tu'shan, Chapter Master of the Salamanders	My sword is at the Emperor's command. I answer to no other man, living or dead.	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 52
	What use is an untempered blade? A false and faithless companion. A weapon whose veneer of embellishment cannot hide the weakness within. Such arms are the mark of traitors and oath breakers– those for whom haste and inconstancy are virtues. The tempered blade does not shatter. It endures and it slays.	Codex Supplement: Salamanders (8th Edition), pg. 6
Korel Tyr, Sergeant of the Iron Hands	I have witnessed the exceptional performance of the Salamanders’ armoured vehicles, the exquisite calibration of their brothers’ arms and the adamantine integrity of their cuirasses. The Salamanders’ fascination with ornament is endemic, yet does not invalidate the conclusion that the function of the Chapter’s materiel is almost flawless.	Codex Supplement: Salamanders (8th Edition), pg. 19
Ta’Ghel, Inceptor Sergeant of the Salamanders	Temper your haste with wisdom, brothers. Should mission priorities suddenly change, we adapt without shattering. We advance and endure where it is required. We strike as a burning comet to sunder their works and we roar our drake-breath from Nocturne’s heart at the moment the inferno is called for. This foe in all their nefarious variety will not long last.	Codex Supplement: Salamanders (8th Edition), pg. 63
Galetus Tyvus, Codicier of the Ultramarines	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.	Codex Supplement: Ultramarines (8th Edition), pg. 78
Tandariss, Watch Captain of the Deathwatch	We are all of us noble, faithful, loyal. We are devoted servants of the Emperor and combatants of exceptional might. Yet we all possess our own doctrinal peculiarities, our own ego. Amongst lesser warriors, such differences would prove insurmountable, tearing the squad apart. Amongst we Adeptus Astartes, overcoming such differences only tightens our bonds, and makes us stronger still.	Codex: Deathwatch (8th Edition), pg. 64
Toreus of Genesis Chapter, Chaplain of Deathwatch	Hatred. It is our greatest weapon against the endless xenos threat. Hatred of their unclean forms, their unnatural weapons, their rapacious appetites and their false deities. Hatred of every aspect of their alien nature. Let hatred lend strength to your arm and steel to your resolve. Let hatred carry you to victory over these unclean creatures, until nothing remains of them but butchered meat and burning ruin.	Codex: Deathwatch (8th Edition), pg. 71
Erasmus Tycho, Captain of the Blood Angels 3rd Company (deceased)	No matter how many Imperial lives our actions save, how many worlds we rescue from the clutches of monsters and how much selfless glory we cover ourselves in from one war zone to the next, none of it changes the bleak truth that we are cursed. And when the black tide rises, and drowns all that we are, does the legacy we leave behind excuse the monsters we become? Does it make our sacrifice worthwhile, as we are told? Or is it all swept away, rendered meaningless by the same bloody flood that takes our sanity? I just do not know...	Codex: Blood Angels (8th Edition), pg. 40
Traviola, Sergeant of the Blood Angels 2nd Company	Though I long for the heady joys of the blade as much as any of my brothers, command of such overwhelming firepower offers a satisfaction all of its own.	Codex: Blood Angels (8th Edition), pg. 116
Tybael, of the Blood Angels 2nd Company	Furio was my comrade in a dozen wars, each more terrible than the last. More than that, he was my brother– an exemplary and selfless warrior for whom I would gladly have died. Yet it was he, not I, who was to meet a bloody end upon Tabulata. 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.	Codex: Blood Angels (8th Edition), pg. 97

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Speaker	Quote	Source
Battle-Brother Ultheris, Subjugators 7th Company	These Imperial Guard officers would kill their foes with their words if they could. Enough talk, to war brother!	Deathwatch: The Achilus Assault, pg. 37
Ultramarines Battle-chant	We march for Macragge! And we shall know no fear!	Ultramarines - A Warhammer 40,000 Movie
Ultramarines: His Proud Sons	From Ancient Terra the Emperor commands His Proud Sons. From revered Blood-stock these Warriors are made His Proud sons No fear they shall know as Adeptus Astartes, His Proud Sons Humanity's foes they defend against all, His Proud Sons Warrior Elite, Unbreakable spirit, Astartes Supreme Defenders, Unchallenged in Battle Astartes Warrior Elite, Unbreakable spirit, Astartes Courage and honour, Emperor and Primarch, Astartes!	Ultramarines - A Warhammer 40,000 Movie, (1:10:34) End Credits Song
Popular Ultramarines Aphorism	To take a town, send a legionary. To take a city, send a squad. To take a world, send a company. To take a culture, send a Chapter.	Know No Fear (Novel), Target//Acquisition, ch. 3, pg. 40
Urloch, Intercessor of the Iron Hands	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.”	Codex Supplement: Iron Hands (8th Edition), pg. 39
Arch-Scribe Urtos, Memorite of the Book of Days and Leagues	Shoulder-plate to shoulder-plate the Adeptus Astartes stand as mankind's wall against the dark.	Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 211

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Speaker	Quote	Source
Varnus, Chaplain of the Ultramarines	Come all you Xeno scum and fallen heretics! Come face the one true might of the universe and wither under the Golden Throne's gaze!	Dawn of War: Winter Assault
Macer Varren, Loyalist Captain of the World Eaters	Hell? There is no such thing, Garro! It's a figment of old idolatry, nothing more. We have no need for a place of horrors beyond death. Horus makes it for us, here, in the real! - on Isstvan III (circa M30)	Garro: Legion of One (Audio Book), Track 4: The Battlefield
	Garro, heed me. We have lost so many of our brethren to this schism, this damned bloody war! A traitor I will kill without hesitation, but we do not speak of a traitor! Our kinsman is lost. - (circa M30)	Garro: Legion of One (Audio Book), Track 7: Aftermath
	I was not cut out to lead like this, Garro. I am a killer, a meat cutter, not a brood mare struggling to protect a brood of weak and feeble runts! I lead warriors, not common folk! - (circa M30)	Garro: Sword of Truth (Audio Book), Disc 2, Track 2: The Daggerline
Vel'cona, Chief Librarian of the Salamanders	I can pulp your flesh and snap your bones in less than a second, and without so much as lifting a finger. What is the power of technology compared to that?	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 56
Uriel Ventris, Ultramarines Captain	- But if you fail, Pavonis will die. By my hand or that of de Valtos. - We will not fail. We are the Ultramarines. - to Inquisitor Ario Barzano	Nightbringer (Novel), ch. 16
	I have seen my share of death, both honourable and despicable, and yes, I know that war is a brutal, bloody business capable of bringing out the best and the worst in men. This is a harsh, dangerous galaxy, with untold terrors lurking in the dark to devour us, but the minute we turn on our own kind and murder them, we might as well take a blade to our throats.	The Killing Ground (Novel), ch. Eighteen, pg. 277
	Without the Codex Astartes, the Imperium wouldn't have survived the aftermath of the Great Heresy. It binds every one of the thousand Chapters of Space Marines together, and gives us a common cause, a connection to the past and to one another. Every Chapter, whether they acknowledge it or not, owes its very existence to the Codex Astartes.	Courage and Honour (Novel), ch. 3
	- And you are wrong. - About what? - About the life of a single individual being irrelevant. Every life is vital, no matter how seemingly insignificant. If we forget that, we are no better than the scum out there. - to Inquisitor Namira Suzaku	The Chapter's Due (Novel), ch. 11, pg. 217
Vordin Krayn, Shadow Captain of the Raven Guard 3rd Company	Do you feel that, proud xenos? The talons of the Raven Guard are closing about your throat. But have no fear. It will all be over soon. - at the Battle of Ulthwé’s Fall	Codex Supplement: Raven Guard (8th Edition), pg. 14
Vulkan, Primarch of the Salamanders	The Warrior sons of Nocturne appear as fearsome devils to most. Yet their valour, their strength, and their skill at arms speak louder than any disparaging voice. They craft war like no others, forging victory with burning conviction tempered by honour and patience. They are righteous fire made flesh, and their flames will never die. - Vulkan, in The Nature of War	Codex Supplement: Salamanders (8th Edition), pg. 27
	To be more than human is; at the same time, to be less than human. Within us is the capacity for greatness. We are warriors, but we must also be saviours. Our ultimate goal is self- obsoletion, for when our task is successful and peace, not war, reigns in the galaxy, our usefulness will be ended and with it us too. – Vulkan, from the Trials of Fire	Vulkan Lives (Novel), Chapter Eleven
	I can scarcely imagine what inspired Horus to this madness. In truth, the very fact of it frightens me. For if even the best of us can falter, what does that mean for the rest? Lord Manus will lead us in. Seven Legions against his four. Horus will regret this rebellion.	Vulkan Lives (Novel), Chapter Fourteen
	You have suffered. I know this. You have come to the abyss, and almost surrendered yourselves to it. That changes now. I am father, general, lord and mentor. I shall teach you if I can, and pass on the knowledge I have gained. Honour, self-sacrifice, self-reliance, brotherhood. It is our Promethean creed and all must adhere to it if we are to prosper. Let this be the first lesson... – Primarch Vulkan in his inaugural address on Terra to the survivors of the XVIII Legion	Vulkan Lives (Novel), Chapter Twenty-Four

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Speaker	Quote	Source
White Scars	Walls of stone and walls of iron, Fall down all the same. They may delay but don't prevent The hail of death and pain. - Assault battle-hymn	Warhammer Siege, pg. 93
	If you can see us, we are dangerous indeed. But that is nothing to the peril you face if you cannot see us, and all you can hear is our laughter. - Proverb	Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 28
Thar Ariak Hraldir, "Wyrmblade," Wolf Priest of the Space Wolves	It was the Allfather who created Leman Russ, the primogenitor of the Vlka Fenryka, and the Allfather who fashioned the Legion that served under his name. For every Legion he created, there was a purpose. Some were blessed with the power to build, or the skill to administer, or the capacity for stealth. Our gift was different. We were made to destroy. Our whole being is destruction. Such was the will of the Allfather. He made us not to construct empires, but to murder them. We were bred to perform the tasks that no other Legion could, to fight with such extravagance that even our brother warriors would shrink from treachery in the knowledge of what we, the Rout, would do to them.	Battle of the Fang (Novel), ch. Nineteen, pgs. 418-419

Unattributed

Quote	Notes/Context	Source
A fortress won't stop the Marines. But it may slow them down.	Proverb	Warhammer Siege, pg. 96
Bolters? Chainswords? All fine weapons, however I wield a far more dangerous power.	Unknown Librarian	Magic: The Gathering's Universes Beyond Warhammer 40,000 - Epistolary Librarian
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.	Anonymous	Warhammer 40,000 Compendium, pg. 85
By thy colour will he know thee, By thy banners will he fear thee, By thy standard will he dread thee, Cry Marine, and let slip the weapons of war.	Unknown	Warhammer 40,000 Compendium, pg. 137
Forget nothing - forgive no-one.	Motto	White Dwarf 96 (UK), pg. 56
Let the repentant enjoy a merciful end.	Proverb	White Dwarf 96 (UK), pg. 55
Though the battle had ended and the enemy was far from the reach of our blades, most of us didn’t come back from the Urgall Depression. Even those men who escaped, those pitiful few, even they didn’t come back. They’re still there now. We all are, fighting for our lives. - unknown legionary survivor of the Isstvan V massacre	Unknown legionary	Vulkan Lives (Novel), Chapter Twenty-Five
What is true faith? Is it belief in the absence of empirical truth? No. Faith is a manifestation of will, it is the fealty-price given in the presence of actual godhood and the only protection from its divine wrath. That is true faith. - spoken during a meeting of the Lodge by a Chaplain of the XVII Legion	Unknown Chaplain of the XVII Legion	Vulkan Lives (Novel), Chapter Three
The Scions of Guilliman are many. We raise our banners above countless battlefronts and fly them atop battlements from Quintarn to Callathoria. We charge at the forefront of attacks unnumbered and crush foes beyond measure beneath our armoured boots. Without us, the Imperium would long have fallen into ruin. With us, it is unassailable.	Unknown Sergeant of the Ultramarines	Codex Supplement: Ultramarines (8th Edition), pg. 72
This is why we were created. We are the Judgement of the free on the corrupt. We are the vengeance of heaven. While one of us lives to wield a blade, our enemies will now know peace. - Proverb taken from the Legends of the Great Khans	Unknown Great Khan of the White Scars	Codex Supplement: White Scars (8th Edition), pg. 20

Trivia

The following information is not to be regarded as officially sanctioned and/ or is not written from an in-universe point of view. A detailed explanation of the term "Trivia" as used in the Lexicanum can be found here.

Note 1

Possible reference to What does not kill me makes me stronger by Friedrich Nietzsche.

Note 2

Possible reference to "For he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.", a line from Shakespeare's play Henry V.

Sources

• 1: Warhammer 40,000 7th Edition Rulebook - section Space Marines