Navy

A ruler that has but an army has one hand, but he who has a navy has both.

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Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls.

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Our ships were British oak,And hearts of oak our men.

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Cooped in their winged sea-girt citadel.

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Right—that will do for the marines.

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The wooden walls are the best walls of this kingdom.

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Hearts of oak are our ships,Gallant tars are our men.

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Hearts of oak are our ships,Hearts of oak are our men.

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All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd.

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Now landsmen all, whoever you may be,And you all may be Rulers of the Queen's Navee.

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Scarce one tall frigate walks the seaOur stout old Commodores.

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The credite of the Realme, by defending the same with Wodden Walles, as Themistocles called the Ship of Athens.

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Lysander when handing over the command of the fleet to Callicratidas, the Spartan, said to him, "I deliver you a fleet that is mistress of the seas."

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There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.

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Now the sunset breezes shiver,She's the Fighting Téméraire.

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Tell that to the Marines—the sailors won't believe it.

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The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.

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Surely the navy must be the navy royal.

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The naval dominion of England is of great consequence and use; for it is called dotem regni. If therefore the kingdom of England consists of land and sea, I hope we shall not stand at half defence, to defend the land and leave the sea.

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The condition of the British Navy is, no doubt, a matter of national importance and public interest.

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The salvation of this country depends upon the discipline of the fleet; without discipline they would be a rabble, dangerous only to their friends, and harmless to the enemy.

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The navy is the most important defence of the country, in which every subject of the Queen has an interest of the deepest character.

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It may not be fit, in point of discipline, that a subordinate officer should dispute the commands of his superior, if he were ordered to go to the mast head: but if the superior were to order him thither, knowing that, for some bodily infirmity, it was impossible he should execute the order, and that he must infallibly break his neck in the attempt, and it were so to happen, the discipline of the navy would not protect that superior from being guilty of the crime of murder.

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Our Mountains are cover'd with Imperial OakWhile the Earth bears a Plant, or the Sea rolls its Waves.

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