Body Quote by Sherrilyn Kenyon

It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in…

— Herman Melville

There is in the American Government...a want of unity… The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose or obey…

— James Bryce

What we are doing in the Pacific is we're flying, operating, and sailing wherever international law allows, and the purpose of that is to…

— Joseph Dunford

What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose…

— Henry David Thoreau

I must repeat what I asserted formerly, that unless some happy expedient can be fallen upon to induce the seamen to enter into the…

— John Paul Jones

Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.

— Nicholas Monsarrat

Law is the rudder of the ship of state.

— Austin O'Malley

A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary…

— Bernard Law Montgomery

“Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck." [ On Water ]”

— Guy de Maupassant

“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

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

— Aristotle

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

— Guy De Maupassant