Josephus Daniels Quotes

#1. Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions. Radio makes surprise impossible.

Josephus Daniels

#2. Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are submerged in water, minuscule crustaceans emerge; they can grow up to 2 inches long.

Brendan I. Koerner

#3. Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

Josephus Daniels

#4. A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind ... he will need only six feet of earth.

Josephus Daniels

#5. Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.

Bear Grylls

#6. We will embrace you in uniform today, we will embrace you without uniform tomorrow.

Josephus Daniels

#7. Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.

Josephus Daniels

#8. To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.

Josephus Daniels

#9. So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.

Josephus Daniels

#10. Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

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#11. There is no rank in sacrifice.

Josephus Daniels

#12. Good God! This man should be writing dime novels.

Josephus Daniels

#13. I'd like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can't. It's not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits.

Darren Shan

#14. If Iona's heart were to burst and his misery to flow out, it would flood the whole world, it seems, but yet it is not seen. It has found a hiding-place in such an insignificant shell that one would not have found it with a candle by daylight....

Anton Chekhov

#15. The Sufis have a saying: "Praise Allah, and tie your camel to a post." This brings together both parts of practice: pray, yes, but also make sure that you do what is necessary in the world.

Jack Kornfield

#16. Destroyers were the first to herald our entrance into the war.

Josephus Daniels

#17. The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last.

Josephus Daniels

#18. Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

Josephus Daniels