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Simple enough, what are some of your favortie naval qoutes. I'll start.

" I wish to have no connection to any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harms way"

John Paul Jones

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Bring on Nelsons biography.

If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

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England expect every man will do his duty. Nelson at Trafalgar;

 

"You know, Foley, I only have one eye — I have the right to be blind sometimes," and then, holding his telescope to his blind eye, said "I really do not see the signal!"[13]  [to withdraw]. Copenhagen: Nelson turned to his flag captain, Thomas Foley, and said;

 

"I have not yet begun to fight!" John Paul Jones (reportedly).

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