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Navy Quotes

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Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.
Winston Churchill

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2.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Calvin Coolidge

3.
The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.
William Bligh

4.
Two weeks before the attack on the USS Cole and then again two days before the attack, they saw through their analysis that a major event was going to occur in Yemen. They told the Navy not to bring the Cole into Yemen harbor. It went in and was attacked.
Curt Weldon

5.
Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive.
George Washington

6.
It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.
George Washington

7.
The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military.
Chester W. Nimitz

8.
Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.
Arleigh Burke

9.
Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.
Alan Shepard

10.
You may fire when you are ready Gridley.
George Dewey

11.
And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.
Harry Mathews

12.
The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.
Chris Kyle

13.
Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no war, you die with clean boots on.
Gerald Kersh

14.
The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.
Karl Donitz

15.
The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.
Napoleon Bonaparte

16.
I don't have any delusions. I don't think I would make it through Navy SEAL training.
Chris Pratt

17.
A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the whole world?” the pirate replied, and continued: “Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an emperor.
Noam Chomsky

18.
If you are to use Alexander Graham Bell’s product, which is to say the blower, you should, in all courtesy, use it as he would have wished; and Dr Bell insisted that all phone calls should begin with the words ‘Ahoy, ahoy’. Nobody knows why he insisted this – he had no connection to the navy – but insist he did and started every phone call that way. Nobody else did, and it was at the suggestion of his great rival Edison that people took to saying ‘Hello’. This seems unfair.
Mark Forsyth

19.
Making the world safe for hypocrisy.
Thomas Wolfe

20.
A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.
Theodore Roosevelt

21.
Strike fast, strike hard, strike often.
William Halsey

22.
The army is the true nobility of our country.
Napoleon Bonaparte

23.
This ship is built to fight. You had better know how.
Arleigh Burke

24.
If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.
Rupert Brooke

25.
My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.
Tony Curtis

26.
Religion has always been the picklock of imperialism. Let them try to convert the heathens, and when they fail, we shall send in the French Navy to protect them and our political and commercial interests.
Jules Ferry

27.
Every once in a while a voice appears that cuts through it all. As Hemmingway said, 'the truth has a certain ring to it.' When you hear the voice of Billy Vaughn you will hear the voice of an American manthe type of American who produces a Navy SEAL.
Michael Savage

28.
As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.
Simon Newcomb

29.
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

30.
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
Edward Gibbon

31.
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

32.
To break a Navy Seal, you have to kill us. That's why we can make it into our training. That's why we can call ourselves Seals because the only way your gonna break us is to kill us.
Marcus Luttrell

33.
A classic, navy blue blazer is my staple. It's a look that can take you from office meetings to dinner out with friends or family.
Tommy Hilfiger

34.
I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive.
Jennifer Morrison

35.
If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long.
Ernest King

36.
Our Navy was very largely sunk. And we were at war in no time at all. I share, in retrospect, the distress we all share at the internment of the Japanese American citizens of the United States. It was not our finest hour. But the Supreme Court had it before it at the time, and justified it and upheld it.
William A. Rusher

37.
Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.
Walter Raleigh

38.
France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so.
Frank B. Kellogg

39.
My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Dave Van Ronk

40.
If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.
Grover Cleveland

41.
The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site, but it's not consistent with residential use for the site.
James Young

42.
I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.
Daniel J. Evans

43.
It seems amazing that the Navy SEALs managed to get inside the compound and shoot Osama so efficiently. I can only imagine they were told that the mission was to rescue a bearded British hostage and he must be brought out alive.
Frankie Boyle

44.
Don't give up the ship!
James Lawrence

45.
The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sovereignty. There are new and disturbing reports of American nuclear submarines passing though Canadian waters without obtaining the permission of, or even notifying, the Canadian government.
Stephen Harper

46.
The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy
Henry Ford

47.
The success of our surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will prove to be the Waterloo of the war to follow. For this reason the Imperial Navy is massing the cream of its strength in ships and planes to assure success.
Chuichi Nagumo

48.
You mention the Navy, for example, and the fact that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.
Barack Obama

49.
The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.
Patrick O'Brian

50.
When asked what I am most proud of, I stick out my chest, hold my head high and state proudly, 'I served in the United States Navy!'
John F. Kennedy