John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher: Quotes about the sea

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher was Royal Navy admiral of the fleet. Explore interesting quotes on sea.

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher: 60 quotes3 likes

“I thought it would be a good thing to be a missionary, but I thought it would be better to be First Sea Lord.”

p. 273. https://archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/273/mode/1up <br class="br"> Memories (1919) https://archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/n0/mode/2up

“We left our element, the sea, to make ourselves into a conscript nation fighting on the Continent with four million soldiers out of a population of forty millions.”

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

p. 53. https://archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/53/mode/1up <br class="br"> Memories (1919) https://archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/n0/mode/2up

“Sea fighting is pure common sense. The first of all its necessities is SPEED, so as to be able to fight--When you like, Where you like, and How you like.”

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

Letter to Churchill, dated 16/1/1912, quoted in The World Crisis, Vol 1, 1911-14 (1923), Churchill, Thornton Butterworth (London), p. 140.