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  • The United States Navy carries the might and the mission of America to the farthest parts of the world.

  • I have an honorable discharge from the United States Navy. Hillary Clinton don't have one. Bill Clinton don't have one. Trump don't have one. Obama don't have one.

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  • It has been more than 30 years since this disgraceful episode occurred, and I believe that the United States government should demand the return of the USS Pueblo to the United States Navy without further delay.

  • I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

    Life   Fear   Military  
    Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont, 16 Nov. 1778
  • A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.

    Military   War   Navy  
    Theodore Roosevelt (1916). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, New York : George H. Doran
  • The difference between a good and great officer is about ten seconds.

  • Events of October 1962 indicated, as they had all through history, that control of the sea means security. Control of the seas can mean peace. Control of the seas can mean victory. The United States must control the seas if it is to protect your security.

    Mean   Sea   Victory  
  • **** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

    War   Military   Marine  
    At the battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 ('torpedoes' were mines). Capt. A. T. Mahan 'Admiral Farragut' (1892) ch. 10
  • When asked what I am most proud of, I stick out my chest, hold my head high and state proudly, 'I served in the United States Navy!'

  • Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive.

    Navy   Submarines   Force  
    George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1782). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.341
  • The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The United States Marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base which is as necessary to us in our continuing forward movement toward final victory as it was vital to the enemy in staving off ultimate defeat.

    War   Marine   Islands  
  • I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.

    Military   Pride   Men  
    Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.620, Best Books on
  • You may fire when you are ready Gridley.

    Fire   Navy   May  
    Quoted in Wash. Post, 3 Oct. 1899
  • A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. But who shall tell us now what sort of Navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas, in the future as in the past; and there will be no thought of offense or provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks.

    Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.154, tredition
  • Today at Pearl Harbor, veterans are gathering to pay tribute to the young men they remember who never escaped the sunken ships. And over the years, some Pearl Harbor veterans have made a last request. They ask that their ashes be brought down and placed inside the USS Arizona. After the long lives given them, they wanted to rest besides the best men they ever knew. Such loyalty and love remain the greatest strength of the United States Navy.

    Loyalty   Men   Years  
  • We have met the enemy and they are ours.

    Message toWilliam Henry Harrison, 10 Sept. 1813. The source is Perry's dispatch from the U.S. brig Niagara to General Harrison, announcing that victory at the Battle of Lake Erie was secure. The dispatch was written in pencil on the back of an old letter; it is quoted in Robert B. McAfee, History of the LateWar in theWestern Country (1816). SeeWalt Kelly 2; Walt Kelly 3
  • It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.

    Military   Night   Navy  
    George Washington (1908). “Letters and Addresses,”
  • For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command.

    Powerful   War   Mean  
  • I've received many honors and I'm grateful for them; but I've already received the highest award I'll ever receive, and that has been the privilege and honor of serving very proudly in the United States Navy.

    Chips (Department of the Navy information technology magazine), October 1986.
  • ...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!

    America   Navy   Naval  
    John Paul Jones, Benjamin Walker (1851). “Life of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones : Chevalier of the Military Order of Merit, and of the Russian Order of St. Anne... : Compiled from His Original Journals and Correspondence : Including an Account of His Services in the American Revolution and in the War Between the Russians and Turks in the Black Sea”, p.44
  • This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of July.

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