In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
With Leighton Smith in charge, we've got a Navy admiral running a predominantly land campaign - the first ever in NATO's 47-year… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
Today a Scot is leading a British army in France [Field Marshall Douglas Haig], another is commanding the British Grand Fleet at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on… — Raymond A. Spruance Copy Share Image
Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught In schools, some graduate of the field or street, Who shall become a master of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
I had learned volleyball in the Navy, where all the captains and admirals wanted to be spikers, and I found then that… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the more reluctant… — Alfred Thayer Mahan Copy Share Image
A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A peril of the night road is that flecks of dust and streaks of bug blood on the windshield look to me… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The English also had a reputation, shared with the Dutch, for blowing up their ships to avoid capture. In 1611, for instance,… — Peter Earle Copy Share Image
[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese… — William Halsey Copy Share Image
I am the son and grandson of Navy admirals, and I was born into America's service. It wasn't until I was deprived… — John McCain Copy Share Image
You're gonna get what's good, you're gonna get what the generals and what the admirals and what - and the enlisted and… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
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