Cork Quote by Josephus Daniels

“The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last.”

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We will embrace you in uniform today, we will embrace you without uniform tomorrow.

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Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

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Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.

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Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions. Radio makes surprise impossible.

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

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Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

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There is no rank in sacrifice.

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To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is…

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Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

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So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy,…

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Good God! This man should be writing dime novels.

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A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses…

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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.

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What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

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The place that I worked I used to joke about it. There was a, every morning at 10:30 I'd come into work and I'd go into this cubicle that had a little upright piano and fake white cork bricks on the wall, and a little slate that came out of the wall that you could actually write on. And a…

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