Quotes of Warship - somelinesforyou

“ Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure. ”

- Lyndon B. Johnson

“ I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. ”

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

“ There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing poetry. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman... They are both... lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America. ”

- Lyndon Johnson

“ No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals. ”

- Belva Lockwood

“ I decided to go through a midlife crisis and instead of buying a Corvette, I signed up for pilot lessons. ”

- Jim Collins

“ A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. ”

- Bible

“ A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and a mask on his face. ”

- Lyndon B. Johnson

“ I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint. ”

- Marge Piercy

“ If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. ”

- Joseph Stalin

“ A fully equipped Duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and Dukes are just as great a terror, and they last longer. ”

- David Lloyd George

“ He grounds the warship he walks on. ”

- John Bracken on Captain Barney Kelly

“ I walked out in the night a while ago. The stars are bright, the night is silent, the country quiet-as quiet as peace itself. Millions of men are in camp and on warships. Will they all have to fight and many of them die-to untangle this network of treaties and alliances and to blow off huge debts with gunpowder so that the world may start again? ”

- Walter H. Page

“ Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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