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"Our country
will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for
letting him alone"
- Admiral Viscount Nelson, May 1794. During the attack on Bastin
"Had we taken ten sails, and let
the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it
well done."
- Admiral Viscount Nelson
"Get
up and get moving. Follow me!"
- Major-General Aubrey S. Newman, 20 October 1944.
During
the landings of his regiment (of 24th Infantry Division), in the Philippines.
“I stand at
the altar of murdered men, and while I live I fight their cause!”
-
Florence
Nightingale,
in a letter august 1856
"It is the
function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought
on U.S. soil."
- Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet
"Among the men
who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue."
- Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz (March 16, 1945)
"Beware
that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster...for when
you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"The
best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be
regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship."
-Chester W. Nimitz
"I have just taken on a great responsibility. I will do
my utmost to meet it."
-Chester W.
Nimitz
"The
bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this
time."
-Richard M. Nixon, during the 1972 North Vietnamese Easter Offensive
"A
riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning."
- Richard M. Nixon
"Perhaps my
dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses.
On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized
nations will recoil from war in horror."
- Alfred Nobel
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