Naval Quotes - Page 4

• What if there's another terrorist attack? I cringe at the ideas of our enemies watching this, knowing much like the president we have now. You can do anything you want, you can jerk us around, you can harass our naval ships the way Iran is doing right now, and we're not going to do anything. We're not going to react.

  John McCain

  Iran, Ideas, Knowing

  "Clinton, Trump square off in commander-in-chief forum". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. September 8, 2016.

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• I am for relying for internal defense on our militia solely till actual invasion, and for such a naval force only as may protect our coasts and harbors from such depredations as we have experienced; and not for a standing army in time of peace which may overawe the public sentiment; nor for a navy which, by its own expenses and the eternal wars in which it will implicate us, will grind us with public burthens and sink us under them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Army, Navy

  Bernard Mayo, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American”, p.212, University of Virginia Press

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• Focus your attention around the naval area, feel that spot. Visualize it. Do whatever it takes. When thoughts come in and out of your mind, pay no attention. You just stay right on that spot!

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Chakra Meditation, Focus

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• To become powerful, to develop will, meditate on the naval center.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Buddhism, Chakra Meditation

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• Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with.

  Bob Hope

  Marine, Sailor, Vessel

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• A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a corps of instructors.

  Simon Newcomb

  Years, Annapolis, Instructors

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• The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

  Willie Morris

  Military, Army, Past

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• My grandfather told me that I should have a series of headshots, one with a tennis racket, one dressed as a naval officer, and one dressed as a cheeky chappie. He said, "If you have those headshots, the world is your oyster."

  Henry Lloyd-Hughes

  Tennis, Grandfather, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the most meaningful things that's happened to me since I've been the governor - the president - governor - president. Oops. Ex-governor. I went to Bethesda Naval Hospital to give a fellow a Purple Heart, and at the same moment I watched him-get a Purple Heart for action in Iraq - and at that same - right after I gave him the Purple Heart, he was sworn in as a citizen of the United States - a Mexican citizen, now a United States citizen.

  George W. Bush

  Meaningful, Heart, Purple

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• The Naval Academy is a very prestigious place, and I choose to try it. I got there and darn near didn't pass, just about flunked out the first year, but a commandant by the name of Bush Bringle managed to call me in one day and taught me more about leadership in about 15 minutes than I have learned in the rest of my life. And because of Bush Bringle I regained some faith and confidence in myself, learning I had a little bit more in me than I thought, and I went back to work and finished.

  Sam Smith

  Years, Names, Trying

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• With Leighton Smith in charge, we've got a Navy admiral running a predominantly land campaign - the first ever in NATO's 47-year history. ... As the U.S. continues to withdraw from overseas bases, Naval Forces will become even more relevant in meeting American forward presence requirements.

  Sam Smith

  Running, Years, Land

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• The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history.

  Bernard Brodie

  Successful, Marine, Korea

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• It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable. . . . He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor. . . . No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.

  John Paul Jones

  Mean, Gentleman, Honor

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• ...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!

  John Paul Jones

  America, Navy, Respectable

  John Paul Jones, Benjamin Walker (1851). “Life of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones : Chevalier of the Military Order of Merit, and of the Russian Order of St. Anne... : Compiled from His Original Journals and Correspondence : Including an Account of His Services in the American Revolution and in the War Between the Russians and Turks in the Black Sea”, p.44

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• Jesse Jackson's wife was arrested in Puerto Rico while protesting the naval bombings there. Jesse said he was holding a meeting with four of his secretaries to decide what to do and that these meetings could run well into the night.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Night, Wife

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• I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of the British middle class - lower-middle class actually - after the war. My father broke into the middle class by joining the navy. I was the first member of my family ever to go to private school or even to university. So, the armed forces had been upward mobility for him.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Military, War, Father

  Interview with Sasha Abramsky, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 16, 1997.

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• The dollar is the final term in almost every equation which arises in the practice of engineering in any or all of its branches, except qualifiedly as to military and naval engineering, where in some cases cost may be ignored.

  Henry R. Towne

  Military, Engineering, Practice

  "Industrial Engineering". An Address Delivered at the Purdue University, February 24, 1905.

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• I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.

  William Safire

  Religious, Peace, War

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• One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.

  John Adams

  Two, Soldier, Sailor

  John Adams (1809). “Correspondence of the Late President Adams”, p.173

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• I read sometime around 1938 of Jewish fines and some street actions against them. But I was too concerned with U-Boats and the naval problems to be concerned about Jews.

  Karl Donitz

  Action, Problem, Boat

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, May 02, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• [Lloyd George] said that Harding's speech on American naval aspirations made him feel that he would pawn his shirt rather than allow America to dominate the seas. If this was to be the outcome of the League of Nations propaganda, he was sorry for the world and in particular for America.

  David Lloyd George

  Sorry, Sea, America

  "The Riddell Diaries 1908-1923". Book by George Allardice Riddell, 1986.

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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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• Visualize a sphere, a dome of red energy surrounding you. Feel that you are consciously directing energy from the center of your body, in the area of your naval.

  Frederick Lenz

  Energy, Body, Red

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• I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms.

  Daniel Handler

  Love You, Whales, Teeth

  "The Beatrice Letters". Book by Daniel Handler, 2006.

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• It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as my newfound loveliness. I adored tending to myself, wiping a shallow red pool of my blood away with a damp washcloth to magically reveal, just above my naval: queasy. Applying alcohol with dabs of a cottonball, wispy shreds sticking to the bloody lines of: perky. I had a dirty streak my senior year, which I later rectified.

  Gillian Flynn

  Summer, Senior, Dirty

  Gillian Flynn (2006). “Sharp Objects: A Novel”, p.62, Broadway Books

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