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“a Marine company or two had less tactical value than a cruiser, let alone a battleship.”

— C.J. Carella

“British battleships were driven by between 30 and 100 megawatts of power.”

— David Edgerton

That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary…

— Richard Hough

I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make the film…

— Peter Berg

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

— Ernest Bevin

We need to stop this overspending. We need to start turning this battleship in the right direction. And we all have to share in…

— Jeff Fortenberry

...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.

— Smedley Butler

I am impressed with the belief that our naval force ought not to cost more in proportion than the British. In some things they…

— John C. Calhoun

'Battleship' is not a film that Francois Truffaut would have made. Nor would any of those other namby-pamby European directors. Nope, this picture eschews…

— Seth Shostak

“Building a naval power takes generations, not so much to develop the necessary technology as to pass along the accumulated experience that creates good…

— George Friedman

Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your…

— Anonymous

“It was not always the case, of course, that navies paid for themselves. In wartime, costs often exceeded revenues, and those deficits grew over…

— Max Boot