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" Branch railroad lines were built after the trunk lines were established - otherwise they could not have existed. It must be the same with roads. "

Charles H Davis
" To propose the building of fifty thousand miles of National Highways may seem to the unthinking a revolutionary idea, yet fifty thousand miles of Highway is but little more than two per cent of the total road mileage of this country. "

Charles H Davis
" You may fire when you are ready, Gridley. "

George Dewey
" Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! "

David G Farragut
" The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. "

John Arbuthnot Fisher
" I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink. "

William Halsey
" If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air. "

William Halsey
" There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. "

William Halsey
" Nothing remains static in war or in military weapons, and it is consequently often dangerous to rely on courses suggested by apparent similarities in the past. "

Ernest Joseph King
" If you've got it, wear it. "

Louis Mountbatten
" Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey. "

Horatio Nelson
" Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year. "

Horatio Nelson
" Desperate affairs require desperate measures. "

Horatio Nelson
" Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. "

Horatio Nelson
" England expects that every man will do his duty. "

Horatio Nelson
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