Quotes on Army Navy

If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.

In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.