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  • I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it. -- John L. Phillips
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  • There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs. -- Fredrik Bajer
  • I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever. -- Peter Berg
  • My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter. -- Lewis Black
  • After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer. -- James Tobin
  • France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so. -- Frank B. Kellogg
  • I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world. -- Frank B. Kellogg
  • But Canada remains a crucial partner in this global war on terrorism, and we are grateful for that. Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and military personnel continue anti-terrorist operations in the Persian Gulf. -- Paul Cellucci
  • Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world. -- Frank B. Kellogg
  • Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Ironically, the Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and personnel in the Persian Gulf I mentioned earlier who are fighting terrorism will provide more support indirectly to this war in Iraq than most of the 46 countries that are fully supporting our efforts there. -- Paul Cellucci
  • 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 am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting. -- John D. Long
  • I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting. -- John D. Long
  • Naval Special Warfare is no place for the weak of heart, limb, or liver. -- Chuck Pfarrer
  • Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on. -- Alan Shepard
  • Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with. -- Bob Hope
  • As both a former governor and a Naval officer I can tell you energy security remains among biofuels' most important benefits. -- Matt Blunt
  • Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society. -- Nicholas Rodger
  • A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a corps of instructors. -- Simon Newcomb
  • I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings. -- Wally Schirra
  • There is a story, no doubt apocryphal, that gamers at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, have many times replayed the 1942 Battle of Midway - but have never been able to produce an American victory. -- Robert Cowley
  • Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have told us that the entire Arctic ice cap may totally disappear in summer in as little as five years if nothing is done to curb emissions of greenhouse gas pollution. -- Al Gore
  • Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School. -- Mark Kelly
  • The CIA teamed up with Army, Air Force and Naval Intelligence to run one of the most nefarious, classified, enhanced interrogation programs of the Cold War. The work took place inside a clandestine facility in the American zone of occupied Germany, called Camp King. -- Annie Jacobsen
  • As a Naval officer, I've been all over the world, and one of the foundational lessons I learned was that parents everywhere would like to raise their children to a higher standard of living in a peaceful environment. That's a universal goal for families. -- Michael Mullen
  • I've lived on a military base and in a convent boarding school with dobermans at the bottom of front stairs to keep us in and intruders out, and in college I spent some time at the Naval Academy, where everything was run by the numbers. -- Kit Reed
  • With Leighton Smith in charge, we've got a Navy admiral running a predominantly land campaign - the first ever in NATO's 47-year history. ... As the U.S. continues to withdraw from overseas bases, Naval Forces will become even more relevant in meeting American forward presence requirements. -- Sam Smith
  • Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian. -- Horatio Nelson
  • There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship. -- George Orwell
  • Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive. -- George Washington
  • There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers. -- Frank B. Kellogg
  • Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence. -- Christopher Lee
  • Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash. -- Winston Churchill
  • Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example. -- Noam Chomsky
  • Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased. -- John James Audubon
  • Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased -- John James Audubon
  • I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high. -- Frank B. Kellogg
  • My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did. -- Jack Adams
  • Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America. -- Isoroku Yamamoto
  • 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
  • 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
  • Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends. -- Camille Paglia
  • Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945. -- William Manchester
  • And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering. -- Daniel J. Evans
  • The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so. -- Alex Morrison
  • The first time I saw America was from my perch on the mast of a Spanish naval ship, where I could spot the Statue of Liberty reaching proudly into the open, endless American sky. -- Jose Andres Puerta
  • It is clear that the flame of True Freedom had passed with naval supremacy and constitutional, consultative government from the United Provinces to Great Britain, where it was regarded with quite as much national pride. -- Peter Padfield
  • A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I'm working on right now. It's a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it's going to be fun. -- Billy Campbell
  • Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army and calls it a war. -- Noam Chomsky
  • I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine. (12 May 1780) -- John Adams
  • Over the years, I've had a lot of different jobs - newspaper boy, dish washer, naval flight officer, Amtrak board member, Governor and chairman of the National Governors Association - just to name a few. But my most cherished job - and frankly my most important job for that matter - is being a father. -- Thomas Carper
  • Whether in peaceful trade or warlike attack, the sea unites more than it divides. Even if it were possible to treat England, or the British Isles, as a single, homogenous, united nation, it would still be impossible to write its naval history without reference to the histories of the other nations, near and far, with which the sea has connected it. -- Nicholas Rodger
  • To become powerful, to develop will, meditate on the naval center. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate. -- Jimmy Buffett
  • To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression. -- George Washington
  • Focus your attention on the center of your stomach, in the area of your naval. Feel that this is an area of tremendous strength. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • The launch of Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine marked a transition in naval warfare-a transition as sudden as that associated with the Monitor. -- Waldemar Kaempffert
  • At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution, -- James F. Cooper
  • Building a naval power takes generations, not so much to develop the necessary technology as to pass along the accumulated experience that creates good admirals. -- George Friedman
  • I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive...(it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the Japanese defence strategy. -- Holland Smith
  • The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities. -- Woodrow Wilson
  • 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
  • I-uh-have the utmost respect for Yamamoto-san. If it had not been for him, there would be no naval aviation. However-the most brilliant man can occasionally make a mistake. -- Chuichi Nagumo
  • Want to hear a sad story about the Dukakis campaign? The governor of Massachusetts, he lost his top naval advisor last week. His rubber ducky drowned in the bathtub. -- Dan Quayle
  • I read sometime around 1938 of Jewish fines and some street actions against them. But I was too concerned with U-Boats and the naval problems to be concerned about Jews. -- Karl Donitz
  • Visualize a sphere, a dome of red energy surrounding you. Feel that you are consciously directing energy from the center of your body, in the area of your naval. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • I commanded a naval gunboat patrolling the Mekong Delta. Then when I came home after two tours of duty, I decided that the same sense of service demanded something more of me. -- John F. Kerry
  • The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so. -- Alex Morrison
  • The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history. -- Bernard Brodie
  • We know that russians are deeply engaged in supporting Assad because they want to have a place in the Middle East. They have a naval base, they have an air base in Syria. -- Hillary Clinton
  • The third eye is located between the eyebrows and a little above. The heart center is located directly in the center of the chest. The naval center is about two inches below the navel. -- Frederick Lenz
  • The third eye is located between the eyebrows and a little above. The heart center is located directly in the center of the chest. The naval center is about two inches below the navel. -- Frederick Lenz
  • Focus your attention around the naval area, feel that spot. Visualize it. Do whatever it takes. When thoughts come in and out of your mind, pay no attention. You just stay right on that spot! -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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