USS Greenling Ss-213/eighth and Ninth War Patrols December 1943 - May 1944

Famous quotes containing the words war, ninth and/or eighth:

    “There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    “The ninth day of Christmas,
    My true love sent to me
    Nine drummers drumming,”
    —Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 53–55)

    “We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness—the eighth beatitude.”
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)