Quotes about Navy

To Admiral Cunningham it was against all tradition to abandon the Army in such a crisis. He declared, "It takes the Navy three years to build a new ship. It will take three hundred years to build a new tradition.

I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or Marines.

Without ships, we cannot live.

There is another telling aspect to a show of naval might. This is its temerity. A fleet carries with it the audacity of its enterprise. The stay-at-home foe is stricken by its sudden apparition. The enemy beholding a navy advancing upon him out of the aether is struck with dread, as Priam himself when Achilles' black ships beached upon the plain of Troy.

Once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.