“ There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. ”
- Thomas B. Macaulay- Copy
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“ Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
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“ How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home. ”
- Isaac Bickerstaffe- Copy
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“ The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England. ”
- Rupert Brooke- Copy
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“ Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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“ What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ That's what an army is — a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Valor, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule — these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from his own nature. ”
- Bhagavad Gita- Copy
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“ Now landsmen all, whoever you may be, If you want to rise to the top of the tree. If your soul isn't fettered to an office stool, Be careful to be guided by this golden rule - Stick close to your desks and never go to to sea, And you may all be Rulers of the Queen's Navee. ”
- W. S. Gilbert- Copy
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“ Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts — a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
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“ Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. ”
- Thomas Babington Macaulay- Copy
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“ We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers. ”
- Joan Chittister- Copy
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“ There is something about going to sea. A little bit of discipline, self-discipline and humility are required. ”
- Prince Andrew- Copy
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“ The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten. ”
- Calvin Coolidge- Copy
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