"In the navy, you can sail the seven seas! In the navy, you can put your mind at ease! Come on now, people, make a stand! In the navy, in the navy. Can't you see, we need a hand? In the navy! Come on, protect the motherland. In the navy!"

"The United States Navy is a high-performing combat team that strives to be its best, in both competence and character, every day. We push ourselves and our Shipmates to perform at the highest levels of operational and warfighting proficiency, and we demonstrate our Core Values of Honor, Courage and Commitment in everything we do."

"May thy service united ne'er sever, but hold to the colors so true! The Army and Navy forever! Three cheers for the red, white, and blue!"

"Stout hearts, my laddies! If the row comes, REMEMBER THE MAINE, and show the world how American sailors can fight."

"For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command."

"Hurrah! Hurrah! For ev'ry Yankee Tar!"

"The United States Navy controls all of the oceans of the world... [A]ny seagoing vessel—commercial or military, from the Persian Gulf to the South China Sea to the Caribbean—could be monitored by the United States Navy, who could choose to watch it, stop it, or sink it."

"You navy fellows have no business on shore anyway, and can keep your stores on board your vessels; I shall take that store-house for myself."

"I am here by order of my commanding officer, to protect naval property, and prevent any person in the navy from being arrested while performing his duty."

"Under our Republic we support an army less than that of any European power of any standing and a navy less than that of either of at least five of them."

"We should have a good navy, and our sea-coast defences should be put in the finest possible condition. Neither of these cost much when it is considered where the money goes, and what we get in return. Money expended in a fine navy not only adds to our security and tends to prevent war in the future, but is very material aid to our commerce with foreign nations in the meantime."

"Anchors Aweigh, my boys! Anchors Aweigh! Farewell... Sail on to victory and sink their bones to Davy Jones', hurray!"

"A navy is essentially and necessarily aristocratic. True as may be the political principles for which we are now contending they can never be practically applied or even admitted on board ship, out of port, or off soundings. This may seem a hardship, but it is nevertheless the simplest of truths. Whilst the ships sent forth by the Congress may and must fight for the principles of human rights and republican freedom, the ships themselves must be ruled and commanded at sea under a system of absolute despotism."

"[W]ithout a Respectable Navy, Alas America!"