Administration Quote by Donald Trump

The Navy is very old and very wise.

— Rudyard Kipling

Ships are expendable; the whales are not.

— Paul Watson

We had 600 ships, a 600 ship Navy under [Ronald] Reagan. We're down to 200 now [in 2016].

— Rush Limbaugh

The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water…

— William Golding

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.

— Rose George

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

— Joseph Conrad

I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.

— James Elroy Flecker

Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.

— Wilbur Ross

I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved,…

— Abraham Lincoln

We are like sailors who have to rebuild their ship on the open sea, without ever being able to dismantle it in dry-dock and…

— Otto Neurath

We are not getting rid of carriers any time soon. This is both because of their utility and also because of their role in…

— P. W. Singer