Memorial Quotes
On an outdoor wall at the Naval Memorial are engraved noteworthy sayings from the history of the US Navy, and who said them. Here are some of them:
- "I have not yet begun to fight!" – Captain John Paul Jones – 1779
- "Don't give up the ship!" – Captain James Lawrence – 1813
- "We have met the enemy and they are ours." – Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry – 1813
- "Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead." – Admiral David Farragut – 1864
- "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley." – Commodore George Dewey – 1898
- "Speak softly and carry a big stick." – President Theodore Roosevelt – 1907
- "Sighted sub, sank same" – Aviation Machinist's Mate 1/c Donald Francis Mason – 1942
- "Underway on nuclear power." – Commander Eugene P. Wilkinson – January 17, 1955
- "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind" – Astronaut and Naval Aviator Neil Armstrong – July 20, 1969
- "I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.'" President John F. Kennedy, 1 August 1963, at Bancroft Hall at the US Naval Academy,
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