Naval Quotes

The battle began in the skies above us. In those first tense midnight hours, 1,000 aircraft roared overhead, with 17,000 Allied airborne troops preparing to leap into the darkness beyond these trees. Then came dawn. The enemy who had occupied these heights saw the largest naval armada in the history of the world. Just a few miles offshore were 7,000 vessels bearing 130,000 warriors.

Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive. And with it, everything honorable and glorious.

To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.

Yesterday, December 7, 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.

If Great Britain goes down, the Axis powers will be in a position to bring enormous military and naval resources against this hemisphere.

Upon our naval and air patrol - now operating in large number over a vast expanse of the Atlantic Ocean - falls the duty of maintaining the American policy of freedom of the seas.

I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.