Navy Quotes - Page 12

• As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.

  Simon Newcomb

  Real, Sensual, Peculiar

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspiration, Men, Competition

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• The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy

  Henry Ford

  Country, War, Outbreaks

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• 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

  Country, Past, Air

  "Am I Turning Into a Pervert?", November 18, 2003.

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• But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. 'Might makes right,' and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.

  Adin Ballou

  Crush, Army, Careers

  Adin Ballou (1848). “Christian non-resistance, in all its important bearings, illustrated and defended”, p.87

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• My style is my personality. It's always been that way. Being a wiseguy and having fun. It's always been that way for me, when I was in high school, and in the Navy. It's not something I rehearse.

  Don Rickles

  Fun, School, Personality

  Source: adambulger.blogspot.com

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• There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

  Fredrik Bajer

  War, Two, Literature

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• The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. The Fighters are our salvation . . . but the Bombers alone provide the means of victory. . . . In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, War, Mean

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• I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important element in future wars, and that in consequence not only will the importance of the Independent Air Force rapidly increase, but the importance of the army and navy will decrease in proportion.

  Giulio Douhet

  War, Independent, Army

  General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.139, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Our Navy is now the smallest it's been since, believe or not, World War I. Don't worry. It's going to soon be the largest it's been.

  Donald Trump

  War, Believe, Worry

  "AP FACT CHECK: Trump's skewed ledger of achievements", www.foxnews.com. March 4, 2017.

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• It has been more than 30 years since this disgraceful episode occurred, and I believe that the United States government should demand the return of the USS Pueblo to the United States Navy without further delay.

  Wayne Allard

  Believe, Years, Government

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• I haven't been down to Navy Pier in such a long time. I know that's probably the touristy thing to do, but it just reminds me so much of 2000 when I was here shooting ["Hardball"].

  Michael B. Jordan

  Long, Shooting, Piers

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• The meaningful work and the meaningful relationships are, to me, comparable rewards. I think being on a mission to do something great is great, and to be on that mission with people who you have really meaningful relationships with not only provides both types of rewards, but it's mutually supportive. Because you can have tough love, but there's also the love part of that in terms of the caring for each other, and when you have the caring you can be tougher on each other. Some people describe it as an intellectual Navy Seals.

  Ray Dalio

  Meaningful, Caring, Thinking

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.'

  William Golding

  Sorry, Fire, People

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• We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy is now pitifully small and has been reduced in size by the current Government, seeking economies to finance its social programmes. Fine while there is no threat to our security. But what use would schools and hospitals be if we could not protect our imports?

  John Keegan

  School, Government, Sea

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• 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

  United States, Lasts, Guinea

  "The Intimate Papers of Colonel House. Volume IV". Book by Charles Seymour, 1928.

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• We now have a lack of readiness that is quite scary. We have planes that were - that Harry Truman inaugurated, the B-52. We have - the Navy has been gutted and decimated. The readiness of the Marines is way down.

  Jeb Bush

  Marine, Scary, Harry Truman

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• I wanted to join the navy to get some perspective on the world and explore.

  James McAvoy

  Perspective, World, Wanted

  "Wanted: James McAvoy Interview". Interview with Patrick Kolan, www.ign.com. July 22, 2008.

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• On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors.

  Ray Mabus

  Military, Ships, Sailor

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• What can I say? If I knew in 1934 what I know now, I would have remained in the navy. I didn't know that this was going to happen and I didn't know that Germany was going to lose the war and be in ruins.

  Oswald Pohl

  War, Germany, Ruins

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• It is not possible to foretell the reaction of certain elements in the Army and Navy.

  Yoshijiro Umezu

  Army, Elements, Reactions

  "The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb" by Dennis Wainstock, (p. 107), 1996.

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• That's what so great about making movies. It's that you get to do stuff you never would be able to do in real life. You get to go to a recording studio, you get to go to Navy ships and fly all over the world for press. And it's just a great job.

  DJ Qualls

  Jobs, Real, Would Be

  "A Conversation With Dj Qualls". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. April 4, 2003.

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• Growing up in the shadow of Johnson Space Center and moving to Texas to welcome our last moon mission home, I wanted to be an astronaut. Combined with my love for Navy history and World War II flight ops, and unsatisfying degrees in college and law school, I joined the Navy and became a naval aviator.

  Pete Olson

  Growing Up, War, Moving

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• I'd rather be a Pirate than join the Navy

  Steve Jobs

  Pirate

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• 'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.

  William Shakespeare

  Army, Soldier, Slumber

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Othello: Revised Edition”, p.201, Bloomsbury Publishing

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