Navy Quotes
300 Navy quotes by 225 unique authors
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The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And…
— Thomas Friedman
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I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years…
— Marc Garneau
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The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength, - the floating bulwark of…
— William Blackstone
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If the Marines are abolished half the efficiency of the Navy will be destroyed. They are as necessary to the well being of a ship…
— David Dixon Porter
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Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
— Dora Russell
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Americans often did not realize that their Marine Corps was a force without counterpart in the world. European navies used Marines for limited duties on…
— Unknown Author
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The Navy-Marine Corps team is unique in history because its mobility and versatility permit it to make a contribution in virtually every medium of warfare:…
— Unknown Author
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The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.
— Chris Kyle
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But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.
— Paul Berg
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The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers,…
— Ernest Borgnine
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I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.
— Daniel J. Evans
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And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval…
— Daniel J. Evans
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My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
— Dave Van Ronk
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I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.
— Daniel J. Evans
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And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.
— Harry Mathews
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Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew…
— Shimon Peres
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I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.
— John Davis Long
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The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as…
— Daniel J. Evans
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I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where…
— James A. Michener
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In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have…
— William Whipple
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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…
— William Bligh
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The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military…
— Michael Oxley
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After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term…
— Harry Mathews
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The Navy's paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in…
— Laurel Clark
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Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like…
— Marc Garneau
Who Wrote These Navy Quotes
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