Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition! -Lieutenant Howell Maurice Forgy, USN (ChC)-

Damn the torpedoes, Full speed ahead! (legend; the actual wording: Damn the torpedoes. Four bells, Captain Drayton. Go ahead, Jouett, full speed.) -Rear Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, 5 August 1864-

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. -Woodrow Wilson-

Don’t give up the ship! -Captain James Lawrence, USN-

We have met the enemy and they are ours… -Master Commandant Oliver Hazard Perry, USN-

God would like us to be joyful even when our hearts lie panting on the floor. -Tevye, “Fiddler on the Roof”-

You beat everything, you know that? -Andy Taylor, “The Andy Griffith Show”-

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. -Charles Lindbergh-

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. -Steven Wright-

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. -Robert Morgan-