Quote by Iain Ballantyne

“The second HMS Warspite (also spelt Warspight)”

— Iain Ballantyne

“The hour proceeded apace: Fights were recounted, battles won amid wars sure to be lost;”

— John Green

“Somehow her engineers managed to squeeze twenty-two-and-a-half knots out of the Warspite, which was pretty remarkable for a thirty-year-old ship. However, just when she…

— Iain Ballantyne

“Fights were recounted, battles won amid wars sure to be lost; hope was clung to; families were both celebrated and denounced;”

— John Green

“Author says the ineffectual U.S. Navy of two centuries ago lost two thirds as many men to duelist bullets as to sea hazards.”

— Joseph Wheelan

“The clack of fangs and the soft swift pad of stealthy feet tell you that the Warhounds are closing in. You look up to…

— Joe Dever

They saw their injured country's woe; The flaming town, the wasted field; Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, -…

— Philip Freneau

“Sometimes, war being the unjust and drastic creature it is, those in whom he invested hopes took an arrow in the chest, the useless,…

— Paul Hoffman

“the worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation”

— Sun Tzu

Destroyers were the first to herald our entrance into the war.

— Josephus Daniels

That most unfortunate war, which I deeply deplore.

— Hirohito

“Grand Admiral Thrawn could perhaps have breathed the remaining sparks into an Imperial Victory. But Grand Admiral Thrawn was gone.”

— Timothy Zahn