Naval Discipline Quotes

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

I am having immense fun running the Navy.

The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too.

The tradition of our Navy mandates that senior officials bear the ultimate responsibility for their command.

The only institution like the United States Navy is the Roman Catholic Church. You write something bad about them and they excommunicate you.

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.

A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.

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.

An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.

My grandad was a submariner; my mum's dad was in the navy.

I went into the Navy because I love the ocean, and I am still privileged to have a place that I can go to that's by the water.

I'm glad I was in the Navy.

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

There can be only one Captain to a ship.

I must repeat what I asserted formerly, that unless some happy expedient can be fallen upon to induce the seamen to enter into the service for a longer term than twelve months, it will never be possible to bring them under proper subordination; and subordination is as necessary, nay, far more so in the fleet than in the army.

My dad served in the Australian Navy until I was a toddler.

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

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there was nothing else to do, would issue the order to "scour the anchor.

I learned a lot in the naval officers' course. It gave me a lot.

There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail around, and every now and then, you have to swab the deck. But, no, it is a very impressive group of young people that live at sea, in this place that's very uncomfortable. They exude a pride that is well-deserved.

My father was executive officer, which is second-in-command, on a ship called the Hull, one of three ordered into a typhoon by Admiral Halsey - an insane and sadistic decision.

You’d best ask the lady boffin, sir,” Newkirk said. “Midshipmen aren’t allowed to have opinions.

They will not be pleased. But they know we must catch the monsoon with a well-found ship; and they know they are in the Navy--they have chosen their cake, and must lie on it.' You mean, they cannot have their bed and eat it.' No, no, it is not quite that either. I mean--I wish you would not confuse my mind, Stephen.