Navy Quotes - Page 12

• The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.

  Herman Melville

  Children, Home, Adversity

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4823, Delphi Classics

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• Football is definitely a team sport. Without one person doing the right thing, the whole team falls. At Navy and in lacrosse, the off-the-field leadership comes into play, you know so if one person is slacking off, we’ve got everyone making sure everyone is pulling their own weight. It’s like that in football too.

  Sean Price

  Sports, Football, Team

  "An Interview With USNA Lax Players Sam Jones And Sean Price". Interview with Colin A.J. Murphy, www.severnaparkvoice.com. March 6, 2012.

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• Im from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. My parents are still together. My childhood was pretty carefree.

  Cassie Ventura

  Mom, Fun, Dad

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• Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America's vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S. Navy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador.

  Alan Cranston

  Gun, America, Hatred

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• Standing navies, as well as standing armies, serve to keep alive the spirit of war even in the meek heart of peace. In its very embers and smoulderings, they nourish that fatal fire, and half-pay officers, as the priests of Mars, yet guard the temple, though no god be there.

  Herman Melville

  War, Heart, Army

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war”, p.247

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• The common sense of the word (navy) as we use it today refers to a permanent fighting service made up of ships designed for war, manned by professionals and supported by an adminsistrative and technical infrastructure. A navy in this sense is only one possible method of making war at sea, and by some way the most difficult and the most recent. There have in the past been, and to some extent still are, many other ways of generating sea power.

  Nicholas Rodger

  War, Fighting, Past

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• Paradoxically, the few eras of peace were times when men of war had high influence. The Pax Romana was enforced by Caesar's Legions. The Pax Brittanica was enforced by the Royal Navy and His Majesty's Forces.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Peace, War, Men

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• You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.

  Barack Obama

  Horse, Military, Land

  Barack Obama's remarks in the Third Presidential Debate at the Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 23, 2012.

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• I will maintain the presence of a Mexican Army, and the Navy and police in the states of the Mexican Republic, where the problem of crime has increased.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Army, Mexican, Police

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• In every age states of varying size and constitution and at every level of development have found naval warfare to be one of their most formidable and expensive tasks. Ships have always been large, costly and complicated, and warships much more complicated and costly than any others. Scholars are nowadays inclined to emphasize the power, wealth and sophistication of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, and there is not more striking illustration of this than the advanced and elaborate administrative structures of the early English navy.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Illustration, Naval Warfare, Age

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• My dad was in the Navy, so we moved around a lot. That led to me seeing myriad cultures and cuisines. I have been excited about eating and cooking for as long as I can remember.

  Graham Elliot

  Dad, Long, Cooking

  "Culinary Kings-Turned TV Judges Cook Up Verdicts on Gordon Ramsay-Hosted MasterChef". The Daily Beast Interview, www.thedailybeast.com. July 27, 2010.

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• Putin likes to quote a sentence from Czar Alexander III, who said that Russian has only two allies - the army and the navy. As a citizen, this makes me sit up and take notice. This is a concept of self-imposed isolation, a defense strategy that sees Russia surrounded by enemies.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Army, Two, Russia

  "Russia Is Slipping Back into an Authoritarian Empire". Interview with Martin Doerry and Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. February 2, 2007.

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• I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

  Babette March

  New York, Army, Stores

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• O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.

  Walt Whitman

  Strong, Army, Power

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.335, NYU Press

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• 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 the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

  Daniel Inouye

  Fundraising, World Government, Air

  Iran-Contra Hearings Closing Statement, www.danielkinouyeinstitute.org. August 03, 1987.

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• There's three things in this world that you need: Respect for all kinds of life, a nice bowel movement on a regular basis, and a navy blazer.

  Robin Williams

  Philosophy, Nice, Three

  "Fictional character: Parry". "The Fisher King", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• In view of the result of attained at the Washington Treaty which, my advisors believe, guarantee peace in the Pacific for some time to come, it is proposed to reduce the establishment of the navy and army, and postpone the expansion of the air force.

  Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster

  Military, Believe, Army

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• When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for having on hand a good supply of those pocket books, which were so common in that period. I must have read a couple hundred of them, and they did a lot to save my sanity.

  James A. Michener

  Children, Couple, War

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• Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

  Allan Massie

  War, Men, Soldier

  Allan Massie (2010). “A Question Of Loyalties”, p.30, Canongate Books

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• Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army and calls it a war.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Block, Islamic

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• All I asked was, where do I sign? Some of the other navy men said I was rooting for the war to last forever. (after Browns gave him a monthly stipend during the war)

  Otto Graham

  Football, War, Men

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• By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power.

  Barack Obama

  Memorable, Air, Majority

  Remarks by President Obama at the University of Queensland, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2014.

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• And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.

  Harry Mathews

  Years, Sophomore, Middle

  Interview with John Ashbery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1987.

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• Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.

  Shimon Peres

  Men, Ignorant, Problem

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• I wouldn't trade those 10 years for anything. The Navy taught me a lot of things. It molded me as a man, and I made a lot of wonderful friends.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Men, Wonderful Friends, Years

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