Warship Quotes
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
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More Warship Quotes
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
dwight Eisenhower— 16 April 1953, Speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors
Like a long boat which follows in the wake of the warship to which it is tied.
Frederick II of Prussia— On the decline of the Dutch Republic subject to British powerAttributed in T. C. W. Blanning, The Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 2000)
Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not myTime, the flood that does not flow. Between the double and the single bell Of a ship's hour, between a round of bells From the dark warship riding there below, I have lived many lives, and this one life Of Joe, long dead, who lives between five bells.
Adam Skirving— 1939 Five Bells, title poem.The poem was written as an elegy for Joe Lynch, a friend who fell overboard from a Sydney ferry.
