Navy Quotes - Page 7

• If the Marines are abolished half the efficiency of the Navy will be destroyed. They are as necessary to the well being of a ship as the officers. Instead of decreasing the Corps, I would rather hope to see a large increase, for we feel the want of Marines very much.

  David Dixon Porter

  Hope, Military, Marine

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• I was a mechanic in the Navy. And mechanics in the Navy are like mechanics in airlines. You may have more stripes than I do, but you don't know how to fix the airplane.

  Gordon Bethune

  Airplane, Stripes, May

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• Americans often did not realize that their Marine Corps was a force without counterpart in the world. European navies used Marines for limited duties on shipboard or in naval bases, but neither the numbers nor the training were provided for large-scale offensive operations.

  Lynn Montross

  Marine, Numbers, Training

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• Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Believe, Land, People

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• I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Crafts, Naval, Limitation

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• My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets.

  Gregory Corso

  Father, War, Home

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• My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.

  Jack Adams

  Believe, Fighting, Men

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• Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

  William Manchester

  Dresses, Guests, Pearls

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• Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy.

  Marc Garneau

  Growing Up, Father, Military

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• The Navy's paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in various different parts of the world. I decided to pay back my time first as an undersea medical officer. I was stationed in Scotland.

  Laurel Clark

  School, Doctors, Scotland

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• In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufactures... destroyed all balances and counterpoises which serve to fix a state and give it steady direction, and then they melted down the whole into one incongrous mass of mob and democracy... the people, along with their political servitude, have thrown off the yoke of law and morals.

  Edmund Burke

  Summer, Art, Army

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• The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.

  Daniel J. Evans

  Senior, Careers, Leader

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• I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.

  John Davis Long

  War, Gun, Men

  John Davis Long (1956). “Journal”

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• I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.

  Daniel J. Evans

  War, Korean, Korean War

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• No one has done more to prevent conflict - no one has made a greater sacrifice for the cause for Peace - than you, America's proud missile submarine family. You stand tall among our heroes of the Cold War.

  Colin Powell

  War, Hero, Sacrifice

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• I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.

  John Davis Long

  Reading, Interesting, Naval

  John Davis Long (1956). “Journal”

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• The Almighty has been pleased to grant us a signal victory on Lake Champlain in the capture of one Frigate, one Brig and two sloops of war of the enemy.

  Thomas Macdonough

  War, Lakes, Two

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• FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.

  Stuart Symington

  Men, White, House

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• You know those Navy SEALs, they weren't Democrats and Republicans. They were just doing what was best for America. Wouldn't that be a great country if all of you Americans were just like that? You followed orders, you marched in step and you followed my agenda.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Country, Order, America

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• There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Land, Naval

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• My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

  Tony Curtis

  World, Bronx, Neighborhood

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• I did a lot of thrift and vintage. I would mix those pieces into some of the more inexpensive items from Express, Gap, Old Navy, and Clothestime.

  Katy Perry

  Vintage, Pieces, Gaps

  "Katy Perry's High School Memories". www.seventeen.com. August 18, 2010.

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• My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.

  Thomas Friedman

  Mom, War, Home

  Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum (2011). “That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back”, p.12, Macmillan

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• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  Camille Paglia

  Strong, New York, Military

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• My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.

  Hillary Clinton

  Football, Brother, Father

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