Navy Quotes

300 Navy quotes by 225 unique authors

It's better to be a pirate than to join the navy. — Steve Jobs
The cooperation of navies from around the world promises high tactical value for the ships, aircraft, and divers involved; while demonstrating international resolve in defending… — John C. Stennis
No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty. — George W. Norris
To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly… — Josephus Daniels
No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping. — Frank Knox
So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate… — Josephus Daniels
Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses. — Winston Churchill
Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners. — Winston Churchill
Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State or the Army,… — Theodore Roosevelt
I'm a Veteran. I was in the Navy, in the submarine corps. I come from a military family. Both of my grandparents were in World… — David Ayer
My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through… — Thomas Friedman
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. — Edward Gibbon
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. — Edward Gibbon
When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship. — Dick Gregory
I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13. — Sean Connery
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten. — Calvin Coolidge
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a… — Oliver Cromwell
My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx. — Tony Curtis
I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and gave me… — Tony Curtis
I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific. — Tony Curtis
I grew up in a Navy family. — Elizabeth Edwards
I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say… — Bob Feller
I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen… — Jane Fonda
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. — William Halsey
There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail around, and every now and then, you… — Tom Hanks

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