Naval Quotes
81 quotes by 65 authors
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My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.
— Lewis Black
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Ironically, the Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and personnel in the Persian Gulf I mentioned earlier who are fighting terrorism will provide more support indirectly to…
— Paul Cellucci
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But Canada remains a crucial partner in this global war on terrorism, and we are grateful for that. Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and military personnel…
— Paul Cellucci
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The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed…
— Abraham Flexner
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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,…
— George Washington
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Naval Special Warfare is no place for the weak of heart, limb, or liver.
— Chuck Pfarrer
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Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has…
— Noam Chomsky
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Tariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the means at the…
— Ralph Raico
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I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.
— Peter Berg
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I commanded a naval gunboat patrolling the Mekong Delta. Then when I came home after two tours of duty, I decided that the same sense…
— John F. Kerry
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To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.
— George Washington
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Want to hear a sad story about the Dukakis campaign? The governor of Massachusetts, he lost his top naval advisor last week. His rubber ducky…
— Dan Quayle
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Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have told us that the entire Arctic ice cap may totally disappear in summer in as little as five…
— Al Gore
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There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.
— Fredrik Bajer
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And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes…
— Wally Schirra
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I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of…
— William McKinley
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At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution,
— James F. Cooper
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I think the major event that shaped my life was being a Naval aviator. I got my commission and wings at 18 years old, and…
— George H. W. Bush
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Throughout my professional life, I have looked upon the Corps as a most valuable part of our naval organization, and this opinion has only been…
— Samuel Francis Du Pont
Who Wrote These Naval Quotes
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