Navy Defeats Japanese

Famous quotes containing the words navy, defeats and/or japanese:

    “The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Such simple things,
    And we make of them something so complex it defeats us,
    Almost. Why can’t everything be simple again?...”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways.”
    —Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)