Top 49 Navy War Quotes
#1. What is the great fear of the United States? That an Eastern power will build a navy to challenge us. How do you keep them from doing that? Keep them at each other's throats so they don't have any money to do this. This is why we fought the First World War, the Second World War, and the Cold War.
George Friedman
#2. The United States Navy, during the war, used Navajos as "code-talkers" who relayed messages from ship to ship, talking in Navajo (a language not studied in Japan).
Michael Lesk
#3. staff of U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet and submitted his narrative in 2001. With the ongoing war in Iraq, I felt it appropriate that a broader audience have access to Commander Winkler's work.
David F. Winkler
#5. The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy
Henry Ford
#6. I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.
John D. Long
#7. Paradoxically, the few eras of peace were times when men of war had high influence. The Pax Romana was enforced by Caesar's Legions. The Pax Brittanica was enforced by the Royal Navy and His Majesty's Forces.
Jerry Pournelle
#9. I'm a warrior at heart; I'm an ex-Navy Seal. I'm too old to wage war anymore, and so now I wage it mentally. And so I find politics very stimulating; it's war without guns.
Jesse Ventura
#10. He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn't choose where he was born; and where he was born didn't choose him.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#11. I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.
Daniel J. Evans
#12. It seems amazing that the Navy SEALs managed to get inside the compound and shoot Osama so efficiently. I can only imagine they were told that the mission was to rescue a bearded British hostage and he must be brought out alive.
Frankie Boyle
#13. The essence of war is violence and moderation in war is imbecility.
-Admiral Jacky Fisher of the British Navy
Erik Larson
#14. Had Howe pressed on the afternoon of the 27th, the British victory could have been total. Or had the wind turned earlier, and the British navy moved into the East River, the war and the chances of an independent United States of America could have been long delayed, or even ended there and then.
David McCullough
#15. The best way to contain China and make it the peaceful rise of China is for us to have an enormously robust navy that is the greatest navy in the world, that can patrol two oceans, that can fight two or three wars, and China will not challenge us because the Chinese are practical.
Rudy Giuliani
#16. I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.
Barney Ross
#17. The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.
Karl Donitz
#18. But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.
Paul Berg
#19. The president is commander-in-chief of the army and navy and of the state militia when called into the service of the United States. He holds this power in time of peace as well as in time of war.
Charles A. Beard
#20. There is no honor in sending men to die for something you won't even fight for yourself
Mark Owen
#21. Never in history has the navy landed an army at the planned time and place. But if you land us anywhere within 50 miles of Fedela and within 1 week of D-Day. I'll go ahead and win.
George S. Patton
#22. The Royal Navy had not built its magnificent reputation over the centuries by avoiding battle.
Arthur Nicholson
#23. When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for having on hand a good supply of those pocket books, which were so common in that period. I must have read a couple hundred of them, and they did a lot to save my sanity.
James A. Michener
#24. The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.
Hideki Tojo
#25. What can I say? If I knew in 1934 what I know now, I would have remained in the navy. I didn't know that this was going to happen and I didn't know that Germany was going to lose the war and be in ruins.
Oswald Pohl
#26. I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried.
Don Rickles
#27. After the Second World War, San Francisco was the main point of re-entry for sailors returning from the Pacific. Out at sea, many of these sailors had picked up amatory habits that were frowned upon back on dry land. So these sailors stayed in San Francisco ...
Jeffrey Eugenides
#28. My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets.
Gregory Corso
#29. My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.
Thomas Friedman
#31. The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages ... onward, to victory!
Joseph Stalin
#32. I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed a lung disease and had to have a lung removed.
Bernard Hill
#33. It would be as if the Navy Seals defected from the U.S. Army to help the Crips take over Los Angeles
and succeeded.
Johann Hari
#34. A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.
Theodore Roosevelt
#35. The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.
Winston Churchill
#36. All I asked was, where do I sign? Some of the other navy men said I was rooting for the war to last forever. (after Browns gave him a monthly stipend during the war)
Otto Graham
#37. The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm.
Jimmy Doolittle
#38. With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The defeat taught us many lessons and impelled our Navy, for the first time since the outbreak of war, to indulge in critical self-examination.
Mitsuo Fuchida
#39. I thought of Pericles' speech to the families of the Athenian war dead, in which he said, What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Eric Greitens
#40. Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no war, you die with clean boots on.
Gerald Kersh
#42. Desperate men are dangerous. And I do know that the United States is not ready to go to war against Japan. Our navy isn't ready and our air force isn't ready.
Ken Follett
#43. The success of our surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will prove to be the Waterloo of the war to follow. For this reason the Imperial Navy is massing the cream of its strength in ships and planes to assure success.
Chuichi Nagumo
#44. You do not mean there is danger of peace?, cried Jack.
Patrick O'Brian
#45. War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to death. But there is something wrong, not nice, about bombing that city.
Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
#46. Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy.
Omar N. Bradley
#47. To have command of the air means to be able to cut an enemy's army and navy off from their bases of operation and nullify their chances of winning the war.
Giulio Douhet
#48. It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.
Chester W. Nimitz
#49. The British Army and Navy sang a rousing song called "Heart of Oak"; the rebels had writ one to counter it called "The Liberty Song." Both songs blustered of freedom; but both were sung to the same tune.
And we, to avoid offense, played the tune without words.
M T Anderson
