The Navy is much more than a job; much more than service to country. It is a way of life. It gets in your blood. — Albert F. Pratt
A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace. — Theodore Roosevelt
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
The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present. — Chris Kyle
It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil. — Chester W. Nimitz
We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military prowess. — James L. Jones
...Since 1775 the United States Marines have upheld a fine tradition of service to their country. They are doing so today. I am confident they will continue to do so. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves. — Barney Ross
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
Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners. — Winston Churchill
The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship. — Chester W. Nimitz
Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive. — George Washington
I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up. — Barney Ross
Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world. — Nicholas Monsarrat
United States Military Quotes
I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight. — George S. Patton
The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle! — John J. Pershing
The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps! — Eleanor Roosevelt
Defeat is a state of mind: no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines. — John J. Pershing
The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years. — James Forrestal
Be in a state of gratitude for everything that shows up in your life. Be thankful for the storms as well as smooth sailing.
The Marine Corps has just been called by the New York Times, 'The elite of this country.' I think it is the elite of the world. — William Halsey
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
For over 221 years our Corps has done two things for this great Nation. We make Marines, and we win battles. — Charles C. Krulak
Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning. — David M. Shoup
British Navy Quotes
Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash. — Winston Churchill
What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years. — Ernest Bevin
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
Paradise is not a place, its a state of mind.
I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman. — George MacDonald Fraser
Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.
The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. — William Falconer
In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British. — William Whipple
Military power tends to be a function of economic power, and the British Navy was the essential capability for establishing the imperial sway - which was attuned to furnish the raw materials for the British manufacturing ascendance. So they were mutually reinforcing. — Charles R. Morris
I'm obsessed with the Victorian era and the British Royal Navy... I'd love to play a troubled sailor or captain or a boatman on a three masted ship. — Nick Offerman
Navy Seal Quotes
There's a storm inside of us, a burning river, a drive. You push yourself further than anyone could think possible. You are never out of the fight. — Marcus Luttrell
With 300 Marines, you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely. Make no mistake about it, Marines are war fighters. I mean they are really good at what they do. The only time they are not good at what they do is when someone puts the shackles on them. — Marcus Luttrell
People tell me I saved hundreds and hundreds of people. But I have to tell you: it’s not the people you saved that you remember. It’s the ones you couldn’t save. Those are the ones you talk about. Those are the faces and situations that stay with you forever. — Chris Kyle
It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life. — Jocko Willink
I don't have any delusions. I don't think I would make it through Navy SEAL training. — Chris Pratt
Every once in a while a voice appears that cuts through it all. As Hemmingway said, 'the truth has a certain ring to it.' When you hear the voice of Billy Vaughn you will hear the voice of an American manthe type of American who produces a Navy SEAL. — Michael Savage
Defeat is a state of mind! No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.
Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards. — Seal
To break a Navy Seal, you have to kill us. That's why we can make it into our training. That's why we can call ourselves Seals because the only way your gonna break us is to kill us. — Marcus Luttrell
I trained with an ex-Navy Seal. We shot a lot of guns. Real bullets... I underwent commando training. — Michelle Rodriguez
I put on fifteen pounds of muscle, so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein, low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way. — Josh Hutcherson
Army Navy Quotes
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
I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me. — Duke of Wellington
They say "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." In the Marine Corps, you can make that horse wish to hell he had. — Fred Larson
All oppression creates a state of war.
I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines...imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the "Old Corps." — Joshua R. Sands
Wherever you are or whatever your job, don't be confused or diverted by false priorities. We have only one mission to perform-that is to fight and win. And, we must do it better than anyone else in the world. — Leslie E. Brown
...The Marines have been the first to land-on embattled beaches throughout the world-we share the unfaltering confidence of all Americans that they will land again-and land hard. — Herbert F. Leary
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
I want you to know I'm an Army brat; I was a captain in the Army and my brother was a jet pilot in the Navy. So I support our troops; I identify with them. But I sure as hell don't identify with the bastards who sent them over there. — Kris Kristofferson
If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England. — Rupert Brooke
If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year. — Bobby Bowden
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
American Military Quotes
Somewhere inside, we hear a voice. It leads us in the direction of the person we wish to become. But it is up to us whether or not to follow. — Pat Tillman
With regard to military discipline, I may safely say that no such thing existed in the Continental Army. — Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
American soldiers in battle don't fight for what some president says on T.V., they don't fight for mom, apple pie, the American flag...they fight for one another. — Hal Moore
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
The Americans have surrounded our country with military bases and threatened us with nuclear weapons, and now they will learn just what it feels like to have enemy missiles pointed at you; we'd be doing nothing more than giving them a little of their own medicine. — Nikita Khrushchev
The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan were targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people who were struggling to live in the pressure cooker environment of what we call asymmetric warfare. — Chelsea Manning
Wealth breeds a class of people for whom human beings are disposable commodities. Once oligarchs achieve unchecked economic and political power, as they have in the United States, the citizens too become disposable.
General Otis is proclaimed American Military Governor of the Philippines and I protest a thousand times and with all the force in my soul against such pretension. — Emilio Aguinaldo
Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, 'Do you want to make it or not?' — Russell Simmons
Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy. — George F. Kennan
Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way. — Clint Smith
Us Military Quotes
None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows. — Colin Powell
They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time. — Chesty Puller
Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat. — Hermann Goring
Christmas children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs. — Bernie Sanders
The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy. — Jubal Early
My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma — Desmond Tutu
You are part of the world's most feared and trusted force. Engage your brain before you engage your weapon. — James Mattis
As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us. — Winston Churchill
Come on boys! Give them the cold steel! Who will follow me? — Lewis Armistead
All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood. — George S. Patton
United States Army Quotes
With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along - that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army. — Jim Ryun
Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there. — Victor H. Krulak
A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat. — Allen West
One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States. — Daniel Inouye
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men — George S. Patton
People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of this democracy, and leaves behind the kind of chaos we see in Iraq. — Jacob Zuma
We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on? — John W. Vessey, Jr.
Offensive realism predicts that the United States will send its army across the Atlantic when there is a potential hegemon in Europe that the local great powers cannot contain by themselves. — John Mearsheimer
The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist -- McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. — Thomas Friedman
'The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom. I know the United States Army will live up to its reputation for imagination, resourcefulness, and spirit as we meet this challenge. — John F. Kennedy
Usmc Quotes
Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed. — Chesty Puller
Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they're so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact. — James Mattis
There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline...you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim. — James Mattis
So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time! — Chesty Puller
As a military pilot and a test pilot, handling unusual situations and aircraft malfunctions was part of the business. — Fred Haise
I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps. — Jonathan Winters
We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem! — Chesty Puller
Manchester United has done an incredible job of building a young, talented, deep squad. — John W. Henry
I have been blessed with some really special crewmates. Being able to be a really integral member of the team, no matter what role I was in, was truly special. — Peggy Whitson
You may fire when you are ready Gridley. — George Dewey
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
I feel that the recent ruling of the United States Army and Navy regarding the refusal of colored blood donors is an indefensible one from any point of view. As you know, there is no scientific basis for the separation of the bloods of different races except on the basis of the individual blood types or groups. — Charles R. Drew
We have met the enemy and they are ours. — Oliver Hazard Perry
The difference between a good and great officer is about ten seconds. — Arleigh Burke
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
Our Navy was very largely sunk. And we were at war in no time at all. I share, in retrospect, the distress we all share at the internment of the Japanese American citizens of the United States. It was not our finest hour. But the Supreme Court had it before it at the time, and justified it and upheld it. — William A. Rusher
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
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
...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America! — John Paul Jones
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
This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of July. — Kenneth Anger
I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines. — Dan Dailey
At present, the United States, with over 700 foreign military bases, navies in every ocean, a programme to militarise space, and drone bases planned for all regions of the world, is increasingly perceived in relation to its hard power diplomacy, a threat to political independence and stability for many countries. — Richard A. Falk
It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the President had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone. It's a larger anthropological shift in my mind than even the tattoo age in the United States. — Padgett Powell
I had spent years in the United States military. Specifically in the U.S. Navy. — Chris Gardner
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
Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power. — David Lloyd George
The United States Navy carries the might and the mission of America to the farthest parts of the world. — George W. Bush
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
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
By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power. — Barack Obama
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
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