Quotes!

WHAT TIME IS IT?
Sir, I am deeply embarrassed and greatly humiliated that due to unforeseen circumstances over which I have no control, the inner workings and hidden mechanisms of my chronometer are in such inaccord with the great sidereal movement by which time is commonly reckoned, that I cannot with any degree of accuraracy state the exact time, Sir. But without fear of being very far off, I will state that it is __ minutes, ___ seconds and ___ ticks after the ___ hour, Sir.

"YOU MAY BE WHATEVER YOU RESOLVE TO BE. DETERMINE TO BE SOMETHING IN THE WORLD, AND YOU WILL BE SOMETHING. 'I CANNOT' NEVER HAS ACCOMPLISHED ANYTHING; 'I WILL TRY' HAS WROUGHT WONDERS."

There's no end to a life that is gone
And I see myself in a mirror
And it cracks and shatters
And says, "You're a crazy marine"
--Tim Spalding (my dad)

"This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper."
--T.S. Eliot

Honor is the most cherished principle of the cadets life.

"Duty is the sublimest word in the English language." --Robert E. Lee

"I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it." --Stonewall Jackson

"Never take counsel of your fears." --Stonewall Jackson

"What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death." --Stonewall Jackson

"Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious."

"There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity."

"You are Citadel Men, you have no pension for failure, you wear the Ring, you never let a friend down, you will be good fathers, husbands, and leaders in the armed forces and industry, you are strong in heart, body, and mind. You protect such things as Honor and Fidelity. Your virtues will matter ... you are the last of the knights."

"He felt a quiet manhood, non-assertive but of sturdy and strong blood. He knew that he would no more quail before his guides wherever they should point. He had been to touch the great death, and found that, it was but the great death. He was a man. So it came to pass that as he trudged from the place of blood and wrath his soul changed. He came from hot plowshares to prospects of clover tranquility, and it was as if hot plowshares were not. Scars faded as flowers." --The Red Badge of Courage

"These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me you may have peace. In this world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world." --John 16:33.

"And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart." --Galatians 6:9

"Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth." --Ecclesiastes 12:1

"There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God. For who can eat and who can have enjoyment without Him?"

"For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command." --Adm. Arleigh Burke

"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.'" --JFK

"The Navy has both a tradition and a future--and we look with pride and confidence in both directions."

"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it." --Robert E. Lee

"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys it is all hell. You can bear this warning to generations to come. I look upon war with horror." --Gen. William T. Sherman

"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends." --Gen. Eisenhower

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." --Gen. George Patton

"When you go home,
Tell them for us and say
For your tomorrow
We gave our today."