Alas Quote by John Paul Jones Download Open image “...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!” — John Paul Jones ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alas America National defense Naval Navy Respectable United states navy
Navy wives, we salute you. For without you, this great Navy of ours would not be what it is today. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my opinion, any navy less than that which would give us the habitual command of our own coast and seas would be little… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever may be my feelings of personal gratitude to the Navy of the United States, I feel myself under still greater obligations to them… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
It is to the last degree distressing to contemplate the state and establishment of our navy... unless the private emolument of individuals in our… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy,… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
For much of my life, the Navy was the only world I knew. It is still the world I know best and love most. — John McCain Copy Share Image
A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I can only tell you this and I used to speak about it all the time, we have a Navy that hasn't been in… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I propose not our enemies as an example for our general imitation, yet, as their navy is the best regulated of any in the… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
When the enemies' land force is once conquered and expelled from the continent, our Marine will rise as if by enchantment and become, within… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding. — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
Was it proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers to have, at so critical a period, launched out on the ocean… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
“Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way. — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
Heaven can never countenance the barbarous and unmanly practice of the Britons in America, which savages would blush at, and which, if not discontinued,… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well. — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
The situation of America is new in the annals of mankind; her affairs cry haste, and speed must answer them. — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children. — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound… — Francis Pharcellus Church Copy Share Image
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace Copy Share Image
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
