A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far. - Theodore Roosevelt
A modern U.S. Navy cruiser now requires 26 tons of manuals. This is enough to affect the vessel's performance.
It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy. - Steve Jobs
The world is a navy in an empty ocean. - Dejan Stojanovic
It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in the law of liberty and the religious law God has planted in us. - Abraham Lincoln