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Navy Quotes
On fleets, sailors, and life after service.
This page gathers historical and personal reflections on naval life, from early arguments over building a competitive fleet to sharp observations about class divides among sailors. For related themes, see the American quotes page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years before my Navy enlistment, I had studied the Soviet Union and the KGB's history of political intrigue in preparation for a career in intelligence.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got out of the Navy... all those hotshots, the guys that were really smart and attractive and all that, guess where they were going? They were going into advertising. That was the hot thing then.
- Commerce
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- Nov 07, 2020
We pay for the navy, and we have no commerce for the navy to protect; we pay for the army, and we loathe and execrate the work upon which it has been engaged.
- Opposition
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Navy, I slept mere feet from a nuclear reactor, so I have no knee-jerk opposition to traditional reactors.
- Principal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the principal negotiator for the Department of Defense, when I was secretary of the Navy, on the issue of Toshiba technology concerns with American submarines.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear weapons.
- Island
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first pitched my Navy tent on the island of Espiritu Santo to the north of Vila, the natives on nearby Malakula were cannibals. Today, they have representation in the United Nations.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm against war with the United States. But I am an officer of the Imperial Navy and a subject of His Majesty the Emperor.
- Strength
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a war breaks out with the United States, the navy will have to put all its strength into interceptive operations, so... massive sea-borne supplies might be momentarily interrupted.
- Middle
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- Nov 07, 2020
And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.
- Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Navy Seals don't travel with 200 people, they wouldn't be able to execute the kind of tip-of-the-spear missions they do.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020