Command Quote by James Callaghan

The Navy is very old and very wise.

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rush Limbaugh

(Mariners) have written one of its most brilliant chapters. They have delivered the goods when and where needed in every theater of operations and…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Fisher said, “to be a good admiral, a man does not need to be a good sailor. That’s a common mistake. He needs good…

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

“Like a ship changing course. It might take a while to get to port, but at least it was going in the right direction.”

— Louise Penny

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

“For sailors with a desire for wind, memory is a good port of departure.”

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

“There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today”

— Anonymous

“To Admiral Cunningham it was against all tradition to abandon the Army in such a crisis. He declared, “It takes the Navy three years…

— Winston Churchill

“Sometimes no matter how far off course your ship has sailed in the seas of life... it becomes obvious that you must turn around…

— Timothy Pina

“We never really know what might be beside us or ahead, bust most days we walk as if we do. (from uncorrected galley)”

— Katherine Catmull

“My ship had lost crew mates before, yet I sailed on.”

— L.M. Bryski