Time Quote by William F. Halsey

“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish onboard.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

“Great Marine commanders, like all great warriors, are able to kill that which they love most -- their men.”

— Nathaniel Fick

“As boys going to sea immediately become nautical in speech, walk as if they already had their "sea legs" on, and shiver their timbers…

— Louisa May Alcott

“We're going to make him the best military commander in history. And then put the fate of the world on his shoulders.”

— Orson Scott Card

“From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, We will fight our country’s battles in the air, on land and sea. First…

— Tom Clancy

“A new voice pops up on the comm, relayed from the station. March. "What the frag are you doing, Triumph? Who's at the helm?…

— Ann Aguirre

“A general may succeed for some time in persuading his superiors that he is a good commander: he will never”

— Field Marshal Archibald wavell

I was fascinated by the [operation] of a U-boat ... where every single man was an indispensable part of the whole. Every submariner, I…

— Karl Donitz

“Gentlemen, Admiral Lord Nelson wrote, of the officers aft on the quarterdeck and the seamen of the fo’c’sle: ‘Aft the most honour—forward the better…

— Julian Stockwin

“When the sea is calm, every ship has a good captain.”

— Swedish Proverb

“With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any…

— GarciLaso De la Vega

“... as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will…

— Edward Gibbon