United States Navy Quotes:

When asked what I am most proud of, I stick out my chest, hold my head high and state proudly, 'I served in the United States Navy!'

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Navy, United States, Proud, United States Navy

A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. But who shall tell us now what sort of Navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas, in the future as in the past; and there will be no thought of offense or provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks.

- Woodrow Wilson

source: Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.154, tredition

topic: Strong, Powerful, Military, United States Navy

I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Military, Pride, Men, Submarines, Naval

A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Military, War, Navy, Naval, Army Navy

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

- John Paul Jones

source: Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont, 16 Nov. 1778

topic: Life, Fear, Military, American Revolution, Military Aviation

It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.

- George Washington

topic: Military, Night, Succeed, Submarines, Naval

Events of October 1962 indicated, as they had all through history, that control of the sea means security. Control of the seas can mean peace. Control of the seas can mean victory. The United States must control the seas if it is to protect your security....

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Mean, Sea, Victory, Naval, United States Navy

We have met the enemy and they are ours.

- Oliver Hazard Perry

source: Message toWilliam Henry Harrison, 10 Sept. 1813. The source is Perry's dispatch from the U.S. brig Niagara to General Harrison, announcing that victory at the Battle of Lake Erie was secure. The dispatch was written in pencil on the back of an old letter; it is quoted in Robert B. McAfee, History of the LateWar in theWestern Country (1816). SeeWalt Kelly 2; Walt Kelly 3

topic: Military, Enemy, Mets, Military History, Military Soldier

The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The United States Marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base which is as necessary to us in our continuing forward movement toward final victory as it was vital to the enemy in staving off ultimate defeat.

- Chester W. Nimitz

topic: War, Marine, Islands, World War 2, Iwo Jima

**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

- David Farragut

source: At the battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 ('torpedoes' were mines). Capt. A. T. Mahan 'Admiral Farragut' (1892) ch. 10

topic: War, Civil War, Speed, Military History, Military Soldier

...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!

- John Paul Jones

source: John Paul Jones, Benjamin Walker (1851). “Life of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones : Chevalier of the Military Order of Merit, and of the Russian Order of St. Anne... : Compiled from His Original Journals and Correspondence : Including an Account of His Services in the American Revolution and in the War Between the Russians and Turks in the Black Sea”, p.44

topic: America, Navy, Naval, United States Navy

For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command.

- Arleigh Burke

topic: Powerful, War, Mean, Modern World, Unleashing

You may fire when you are ready Gridley.

- George Dewey

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

topic: Fire, Navy, May, Spanish American War, United States Navy

The difference between a good and great officer is about ten seconds.

- Arleigh Burke

topic: Military, Differences, Officers, United States Navy

The United States Navy carries the might and the mission of America to the farthest parts of the world.

- George W. Bush

topic: America, Navy, United States, United States Navy

I have an honorable discharge from the United States Navy. Hillary Clinton don't have one. Bill Clinton don't have one. Trump don't have one. Obama don't have one.

- Jesse Ventura

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topic: Navy, United States, Bills, United States Navy

I've received many honors and I'm grateful for them; but I've already received the highest award I'll ever receive, and that has been the privilege and honor of serving very proudly in the United States Navy.

- Grace Hopper

source: Chips (Department of the Navy information technology magazine), October 1986.

topic: Military, Grateful, Awards, United States Navy

It has been more than 30 years since this disgraceful episode occurred, and I believe that the United States government should demand the return of the USS Pueblo to the United States Navy without further delay.

- Wayne Allard

topic: Believe, Government, Years, State Government, Disgraceful

Today at Pearl Harbor, veterans are gathering to pay tribute to the young men they remember who never escaped the sunken ships. And over the years, some Pearl Harbor veterans have made a last request. They ask that their ashes be brought down and placed inside the USS Arizona. After the long lives given them, they wanted to rest besides the best men they ever knew. Such loyalty and love remain the greatest strength of the United States Navy.

- George W. Bush

topic: Loyalty, Men, Years, Love And Loyalty, Pearl Harbor Day

This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of July.

- Kenneth Anger

topic: July, Navy, United States, United States Navy