Navy Quotes
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I've received many honors and I'm grateful for them; but I've already received the highest award I'll ever receive, and that has been the privilege and honor of serving very proudly in the United States Navy.
grace hopper— As appeared in the October 1986 issue of Chips, a Department of the Navy information technology magazine
Raeder, the political admiral, stealthily built up the German Navy in defiance of the Versailles Treaty, and then put it to use in a series of aggressions which he had taken a leading part in planning.
erich raeder— Robert H. Jackson
It has been 20 years since the Navy signed the humiliating Washington Naval Treaty. During [that] time we have whetted our swords to stab [the] US.
— A Japanese officer.[ ]
There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations….What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay the taxes, furnish recruits for the Army and Navy and bless the masters who either despise or oppress or combine both? The apathy that exists respecting Ireland is worse than the national antipathy they bear us.
Daniel O'Connell— Letter to T.M. Ray, 1839, on English attitudes to Ireland (O’Connell Correspondence, Vol VI, Letter No. 2588).
A load would sink a Navy, too much honour.
— Wolsey, scene ii
'Where they got you stationed now, Luke?'? 'At the p-p-p-present time in Norfolk at the Navy base,' Luke answered,'m-m-making the world safe for hypocrisy.'
Thomas Clayton Wolfe— 1929 Look Homeward, Angel, pt.3, ch.36.
Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
alexander graham bell— As quoted in The Military Quotation Book by James Charlton, p. 37
There exists a shadowy government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.
— Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition (Iran-Contra hearings) (1987)
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The Soviet Army, Air Force and Navy are strong enough to thwart any attempts of imperalist reaction to disrupt the peaceful labor of our people or the unity and solidarity of the socialist camp.
rodion malinovsky— Quoted in "Diplomacy of Power: Soviet Armed Forces as a Political Instrument" - Page 93 - by Stephen S. Kaplan - Political Science - 1981
I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.
james a. michener— On a heroine in Tales of the South Pacific (1947) in Commercial Appeal (31 December 1951)
If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of a Navy or an Air Force to have whipped us in the past 40 years.
hunter s. thompson— "Am I Turning Into a Pervert?" (18 November 2003)
It is not possible to foretell the reaction of certain elements in the Army and Navy.
yoshijirō umezu— Quoted in "The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb" - Page 107 - by Dennis Wainstock - History - 1996
And we will NOT let Campbell's Soup, Old Navy, or anybody ELSE, HAMMER into the minds of girls as YOUNG as SIX YEARS OLD that they should ALWAYS hate their bodies and ALWAYS be on a diet!
jello biafra— "Become the Media" (Track 10)
The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.
thomas l. friedman— "A Manifesto for the Fast World". New York Times. March 28, 1999. Retrieved on 2010-06-28.
We may be for or against the South. But there is no doubt that Jefferson Davis and other leaders of the South have made an Army; they are making, it appears, a Navy; and they have made what is more than either they have made a Nation ... We may anticipate with certainty the success of the Southern States so far as regards their separation from the North.
william ewart gladstone— Speech on the American Civil War, Town Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne (7 October 1862)
Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own gallant men have sacrificed their lives at the behest of an Executive department in order to establish laws drafted by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. ... I will not empower an Assistant Secretary of the Navy to draft a constitution for helpless neighbors in the West Indies and jam it down their throats at the point of bayonets borne by US Marines.
warren g. harding— Speech during Warren Harding's 1920 presidental campaign, critizing Woodrow Wilson's Haitian policies; quoted in Democracy at the Point of Bayonets (1999) by Mark Penceny, p. 2. (The Assistant Secretary of the Navy he refers to is Franklin Roosevelt, who was the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1920.)
The condition of the British Navy is, no doubt, a matter of national importance and public interest.
— Grove, J., Henwood v. Harrison (1872), L. R. 7 C. P. Cas. 613.
"In the Navy we're concerned about health and about preserving health care because we don't get paid by the procedure. We get paid to have Marines and sailors healthy, and that's the same mission as the chiropractic profession..."
— Vice Admiral Donald C. Arthur, MD, Surgeon General of the Navy ACANews[ ]
They have discovered that the length of time we have now been in commission has rotted our ships and wasted our crews, and that with the completeness of our crews and the soundness of the pristine efficiency of our Navy has departed. For it is impossible for us to haul our ships ashore and dry them out because the enemy's vessels being as many or more than our own, we are constantly anticipating an attack.
Thucydides— Book VII, 7.12-[3]-[4]
The royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of our island.
william blackstone— Book I, ch. 13: Of the Military and Maritime States.
I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire Navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible for what happened to Jews in Germany, or Russian soldiers on the east front it is so ridiculous all I can do is laugh.
karl dönitz— To Leon Goldensohn, July 14, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a Navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.
david lloyd george— Colonel Edward House's diary entry (4 November 1918), quoted in Charles Seymour (ed.), The Intimate Papers of Colonel House. Volume IV (Boston, 1928), p. 180.
He has assisted so many projects for so many senators that when old Carl wants something for his beloved Arizona, his fellow senators fall all over themselves giving him a hand. They'd probably vote landlocked Arizona a Navy if he asked for it.
carl hayden— Cohen, Jerry. "Carl Hayden—Man of History and Few Words", Los Angeles Times, April 18, 1971, pp. A1.
When raging love with extreme pain Most cruelly distrains my heart; When that my tears, as floods of rain, Bear witness of my woful smart; When sighs have wasted so my breath That I lie at the point of death: I call to mind the Navy great That the Greeks brought to Troyè town: And how the boisterous winds did beat Their ships, and rent their sails adown; Till Agamemnon 's daughter's blood Appeased the gods that them withstood.
howard, henry, earl of surrey— "The Lover Comforteth Himself with the Worthiness of his Love", line 1
There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the Navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.
— Macaulay, History of England, Volume I, Chapter III, Part XXXII.
Surely the Navy must be the Navy royal.
— Holt, C.J., Tutchin's Case (1704), 14 How. St. Tr. 1122.
The Navy is the most important defence of the country, in which every subject of the Queen has an interest of the deepest character.
— Willes, J., Henwood v. Harrison (1872), L. R. 7 C. P. Cas. 627.
