Navy Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• 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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• No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest of all virtues is true valor) and noble in its cause. No utility either more just or universal than the protection of the repose or defense of the greatness of one's country. The company and daily conversation of so many noble, young and active men cannot but be well-pleasing to you.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Country, Military, Exercise

  Michel de Montaigne (1964). “Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio”

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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 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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• When the child has reached manhood he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country against the attack or invasion of any foreigner. It is for that purpose that we are clamoring for a greater army and navy, more battleships and ammunition.

  Emma Goldman

  Country, Children, Army

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.72, 谷月社

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• The powers know that the people at large are like children whose despair, sorrow, and tears can be turned into joy with a little toy. ... An army and navy represents the people's toys.

  Emma Goldman

  Children, Army, People

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.90, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

  Jack Adams

  June, Parent, Permission

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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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• The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist -- McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.

  Thomas Friedman

  Marine, Army, Technology

  "A Manifesto for the Fast World". www.nytimes.com. March 28, 1999.

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• I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer.

  Marc Garneau

  Engineering, Years, Further Education

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• Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

  Dora Russell

  Marriage, Army, Law

  "The Right to Be Happy". Book by Dora Russell, p. 241, 1927.

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• 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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• 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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• But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.

  Paul Berg

  War, Effort, Flyers

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In time, the church will actually be organized more as a military force with an army, navy, air force, etc.

  Rick Joyner

  Military, Army, Air

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• A fleet of the most powerful vessels would be of little use in war without a personnel at least as efficient as that of our possible enemies.

  William Sims

  Powerful, War, Enemy

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• Strike fast, strike hard, strike often.

  William Halsey

  Strikes, Hard

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• Underway on nuclear power.

  Eugene P. Wilkinson

  Nuclear, Nuclear Power

  "Wilkinson, retired vice admiral, 1st commander of nuclear-powered submarine, dies at age 94". www.foxnews.com. July 16, 2013.

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