Halls of Montezuma may refer to:
- Chapultepec, a hill settled by the Aztecs near Tenochtitlan; now a park in Mexico City.
- Chapultepec Castle, located on Chapultepec hill. Though built for the Spanish rulers of Mexico, it was commonly called the "Halls of Montezuma" after Moctezuma II, the Aztec emperor at the start of the Spanish conquest.
- Marines' Hymn, the official hymn of the United States Marine Corps. Its opening line "From the halls of Montezuma..." (referring to Chapultepec Castle, which the Marines conquered in the Mexican-American War's Battle of Chapultepec) popularized the term.
- Halls of Montezuma (1951 film), about a group of U.S. Marines; the title is from the Marines' Hymn.
- Halls of Montezuma: A Battle History of the U.S. Marine Corps, a turn based military strategy video game by Strategic Studies Group (SSG) released for home computers in 1990.
Famous quotes containing the words halls of, halls and/or montezuma:
“Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.”
—Myriam Miedzian, U.S. author. Boys Will Be Boys, ch. 2 (1991)
“The good grey guardians of art
Patrol the halls on spongy shoes,
Impartially protective, though
Perhaps suspicious of Toulouse.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
“There is only one evil, to deny life
As Rome denied Etruria
And mechanical America Montezuma still.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)