The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle!
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.
Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.
In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.
A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.
I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company
There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.
Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.
Making the world safe for hypocrisy.
The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.
O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.
If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength, - the floating bulwark of our island.
The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.
When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
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