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The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers head for a seamen's mission.

We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.

Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

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.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.