George Dewey quotes

George Dewey quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“You may fire when you are ready Gridley.”
-- George Dewey

Source : Quoted in Wash. Post, 3 Oct. 1899

#Fire Quotes #Navy Quotes #May Quotes

“No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.”

Source : "Possession". www.imdb.com. 2002.
“We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.”
“There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion, give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves; it will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint, and it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so; for they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.”
“This ship is built to fight. You had better know how.”
“The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.”

Source : Duff Gilfond, Calvin Coolidge (1932). “The Rise of Saint Calvin: Merry Sidelights on the Career of Mr. Coolidge”
“My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.”

Source : Dave Van Ronk (2013). “The Mayor of MacDougal Street [2013 edition]: A Memoir”, p.4, Da Capo Press
“Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.”
“A bona fide spiritual master, under the guidance of authorities, can turn anyone to the Vaisnava cult so that naturally he may come to the topmost position of a brahmana.”
“The experience youâ€™ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.”
“The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.”

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