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Quote Left Why does the New Italian navy have glass bottom boats? To see the Old Italian Navy! Quote Right
Quote Left The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is ... Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left There is a homely old adage which runs: 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.' If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far. Quote Right
Quote Left The people in the Navy look on motherhood as being compatible with being a woman. Quote Right
Quote Left Look Johnny, Spig just joined the Navy. I'm married to it. I run the mess hall. I swab the deck. I chip the rust. You're afraid that they'll k... Quote Right
Quote Left There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far. Quote Right
Quote Left Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses -- that man your navy, and recruit your army -- that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island. Quote Right
Quote Left 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!' Quote Right
Quote Left A language is a dialect with an army and a navy. Quote Right

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