Air Quote by Newton D. Baker

I would attack any squadron blockading a port. Nothing could prevent me from dropping out of the clear blue sky on to a battleship…

— Jules Vedrines

I wanted to do a naval film and I flirted with different ideas, most of which ended up being too intense. So when the…

— Peter Berg

To throw bombs from an airplane will do as much damage as throwing bags of flour. It will be my pleasure to stand on…

— Newton D. Baker

It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I believe the only way you can make sure that submarines will not be abused in future wars is that there should be no…

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary…

— Richard Hough

Take a chance in life because a ship is safe in the harbor...but that's not what it was built for!..

— Anonymous

If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

— Mark Twain

We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

— Bernard Baruch

So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we…

— Sonia Johnson

We have to build bridges that are stronger than the bombs that other people might throw

— Eboo Patel

“If an enemy ship cannot be taken over by our own crews, it must be sunk! There is to be no deviation from that!”

— Michael G. Kramer