Navy Quotes
300 Navy quotes by 225 unique authors
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But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust.…
— Adin Ballou
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If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to…
— Ludwig von Mises
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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…
— Henry Ford
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What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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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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It has been more than 30 years since this disgraceful episode occurred, and I believe that the United States government should demand the return of…
— Wayne Allard
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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…
— Simon Newcomb
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I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't…
— Ed McBain
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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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If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.
— Grover Cleveland
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If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
— Bobby Bowden
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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…
— Jules Ferry
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But I do say that, if you will regularly devote 15 minutes a day, preferably before breakfast, for 60 days to the simple set of…
— Gene Tunney
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State ownership and control is not necessarily Socialism - if it were, then the Army, the Navy, the Police, the Judges, the Gaolers, the Informers,…
— James Connolly
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The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you…
— Herman Wouk
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It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that will be…
— Jacque Fresco
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Arsenal have class. I remember when I was at Spurs, the Arsenal players would arrive for matches in their navy blazers with the gold gun…
— Jimmy Greaves
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The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.
— Patrick O'Brian
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Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.
— Bob Feller
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You want to know who's now running the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the Marines and calling the shots where it counts? Fundamentalist Muslims…
— Bryan Fischer
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I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.
— Barney Ross
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I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
— Jack Adams
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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,…
— Gordon Bethune
Who Wrote These Navy Quotes
225 authors contributed a total of 300 Navy Quotes, led by these top contributors: