" "The navy was my own choice; partly, I think, from a certain love of adventure, and quite as much, perhaps, with a wish to settle the question of my birth-place, practically at least, by enlisting in the service of the one that I first knew, and certainly best loved.

But the German Navy is an artificial thing; as artificial as a constructed Alp would be in England.

The Navy, then, is a profession which is at least as highly specialized as that of a surgeon, an engineer, or a lawyer.

The Navy, after all, is a fighting machine.

Then came the wars of the French Revolution and Empire in which the British navy was the partner of the Austrian, Prussian, Russian, and Spanish armies.

If our navy were the strongest in the world, we too would be glad to have all nations stop building warships,” and they laid down the keels of four new super-dreadnaughts.

It is because a strong British Navy is the best guarantee of peace.

Every youngster who hopes to be an officer knows that the navy is no place for idling; every man who enlists knows that he is in for no junket on a pleasure yacht.

I have already hinted at the possibility that the now exclusively British navy may some day be a world-navy controlled by an Admiralty representing a group of allies, Australasia, Canada, Britain and, it may be, France and Russia and the United States.

The English navy was the pride of that great nation in 1812, as it is now.

A navy is a most expensive establishment; kings, ministers, and people are all very apt to think that when it is not wanted at any particular time, the cost of its maintenance may be more profitably applied to other objects.

At the opening of the war, our navy was the subject of English ridicule and contempt.

The British Navy fighting on the Urals was the only reminder the Russian soldier had that the Allies of his country had not entirely deserted her.

It will be seen, therefore, that the navy was a most important agent in the campaign, and Greece was the only one of the Allies that had a navy.

The German Navy, in his opinion, was "a jolly fine Service," worthy in high courage and skill to contest with us the supremacy of the seas.

Very probably the Navy is the exception to the British system; its officers are rescued from the dull homes and dull schools of their class while still of tender years, and shaped after a fashion of their own.

Though other forces co-operated to bring about the defeat of Carthage in the second Punic war, the Roman navy, as Mahan demonstrates, was the most important.

The navy is my care, and it's my job to see that we keep it up to the proper standard.

They governed only four years; yet, under their auspices, the conquests of Ireland and Scotland were achieved, and a navy was [Footnote 1: See the several accounts in Whitelock, 554; Ludlow, ii. 19 23; Leicester's Journal, 139; Hutchinson, 332; Several Proceedings, No. 186, and Burton's Diary, iii. 98.]

"A navy is the most expensive of all means of defense, and the tyranny of governments consists in the expensiveness of their machinery."

" "Oh! as to the last, the navy is his pet; he considers us captains in particular as his children.

Heretofore, the navy has been the symbol of our power and the emblem of our liberty, but now it speaks of humanity and of a noble sympathy for the oppressed of all nations.

A navy, accordingly, was now a weapon of undoubted keenness, capable of very effective use by anyone who knew how to wield it.

There was a Federal Minister of Marine, but no Federal Minister of War; the army continued the living sign of Prussian supremacy among a group of sovereign States, the navy was the first fruit of the united German institutions which were to be built up by the united efforts of the whole peoplea curious resemblance to the manner in which Augustus also added an Imperial navy to the older Republican army.

The Navy is the arm from which our Government will always derive most aid in support of our neutral rights.