David Farragut quotes
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“**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!”
-- David FarragutSource : At the battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 ('torpedoes' were mines). Capt. A. T. Mahan 'Admiral Farragut' (1892) ch. 10
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“The best defense is a well-directed fire from your own guns.”
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“Admiral Farragaut upon entering Mobile Bay Damn the torpedos. FULL SPEED AHEAD!”
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“As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.”
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“The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.”
Source : Alexander H. Stephens “A”
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“Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.”
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Source : Alice Thomas Ellis (1988). “Home Life Three”, Gerald Duckworth
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