Army And Navy

(473 votes)   The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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

Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(415 votes)   That's what an army is -- a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(380 votes)   Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts -- a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(361 votes)   'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(357 votes)   We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be never so vile. This day shall gentle his condition. And gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(343 votes)   What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(268 votes)   There is something about going to sea. A little bit of discipline, self-discipline and humility are required.

Prince Andrew
British Prince

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(247 votes)   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
1887-1915, British Poet

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(238 votes)   We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers.

Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley
1769-1852, British Statesman, Military Leader

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(228 votes)   Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

John Dryden
1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic

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(213 votes)   The army is the true nobility of our country.

Napoleon III
1808-1873, Third son of Louis Bonaparte, the President of the Second French Rep.

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

Walt Whitman
1819-1892, American Poet

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(197 votes)   How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home.

Isaac Bickerstaffe

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