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Famous quotations:
"I have not yet begun to fight"
-- Captain John Paul Jones, Continental Army
Battle between Bon Homme Richard & Serapis, 23 September 1779.
"Tell the men to fire faster! Don't give up the ship!"
-- Captain James Lawrence, United States Navy
Mortally wounded in action between USS Chesapeake & HMS Shannon, 1813
"We have met the enemy and they are ours: Two ships, two Brigs, one Schooner, and one Sloop!"
-- Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, Untied States Navy
Battle of lake Erie, 1813
"Damn the torpedoes! Four bells! Captain Drayton go ahead!"
-- Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, United States Navy
Battle of Mobile Bay, 1864
"You may fire when ready, Gridley."
-- Commodore George Dewey, United States Navy
Battle of Manilla Bay, 1898
"Retreat hell! We just got here!"
Captain Lloyd Williams, United States Marine Corps
Battle of Belleau Wood, 3 June 1918
"The Navy has both tradition and a future... and we look with pride and confidence in both directions."
-- Admiral George Anderson, United States Navy
Chief of Naval Operations, 1961
"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."
-- Admiral Chester Nimitz, United States Navy
"The devil is in the details and every thing we do in the military is a detail."
-- Admiral Hyman Rickover, United States Navy
"Father of the Nuclear Navy"
"Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not much use to his subordinates."
-- Admiral Arleigh Burke, United States Navy |