Quotes About Navy

My father was an amazing guy. Twenty years in the Navy, great father.

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil.

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.

War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to death. But there is something wrong, not nice, about bombing that city.

Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy.

A man-of-war is the best ambassador.

The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm.

I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

All wars will be settled by sea power.

If we were building our navy, rather than reducing our navy to pre-World War I levels, China would not be thinking about increasing its navy to take over the South China Sea.

Tell me," he demanded. "Tell me when. I'm going to come with you." . . . "Tell me," he ordered. "I'm . . . yes!" she said. "Yes!" . . . "Can you really do that/" she asked. "Come on command?" --Mike Muldoon, Navy SEAL, to Joan DaCosta

Two Navy SEALs versus one angry seven-month-old," he mused, "The odds could go either way.

And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.

When the USS New Jersey is commissioned, it will be a source of pride for everyone in our state for decades.

Our redneck reputation back then was originally just because we had long hair. Back in the '60s and the early '70s, in the South that was kind of a no-no. At all the Army and Navy bases we'd play, we would get into fights with the soldiers over our hair. But I think our music overshadowed everything else.

I was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi, lived there a couple of times. My dad was in the Navy. So, we lived in Mississippi and South Carolina until I was 11, and then I moved to California, went to, you know, high school there in the Monterey Bay area.

Britain had just converted its entire fleet from the unsteady power of wind to the constant force provided by coal. Now, Churchill declared, Britain had to transform its navy a second time. Burning a pound of fuel oil produces about twice as much energy as burning a pound of coal. An oil-fueled ship could thus travel roughly twice as far as a coal-fueled ship of similar size. Oil's greater energy density meant that it, rather than coal, was the fossil fuel of choice.

The navy evacuated more than six hundred people, many of whom developed "raw, weeping lesions" from the radiation. It was a public relations nightmare. AEC chairman Lewis Strauss tried to reassure the public that the island natives were "well and happy," but it was hard to hide the truth

I looked around the room trying to think of a situation that could be any worse than this, and decided that the only thing that could be worse than prison was the navy.

But I would also warn against diverting too many of the Empire's resources from a flexible navy of capital ships and starfighters to massive projects that can bring the Imperial presence to only one system at a time.

There was a tendency in the U.S. Navy to assume that since they made their living by charging into machine-gun fire, Marines were dumb.

The Navy wanted to see just how effective her new quieting systems were.

Submariners lived by a simple motto: There are two kinds of ships, submarines . . . and targets.