David Dixon Porter (1813–1891) United States Navy admiral
Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), p. 212
“I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.”
On a heroine in Tales of the South Pacific (1947) in Commercial Appeal (31 December 1951)
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“Russia has only two allies: the Army and the Navy.”
Alexander III of Russia (1845–1894) Emperor of Russia
Source: Book of memories Appendix to Illustrated Russia for 1933 by Alexander Mikhailovich http://www.rummuseum.ru/lib_a/al_mih05.php
Herman Melville book Benito Cereno
Benito Cereno, Putnam's Monthly ( October 1855 http://books.google.com/books?id=TlYAAAAAYAAJ&q=%22In+armies+navies+cities+or+families+in+nature+herself+nothing+more+relaxes+good+order+than+misery%22&pg=PA356#v=onepage)
“A ruler that has but an army has one hand, but he who has a navy has both.”
Peter I of Russia (1672–1725) Tsar and 1st Emperor, founder of the Russian Empire
Attributed in Way a River Went: Following the Volga Through the Heart of Russia https://books.google.com/books?id=x9EWDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT163&lpg=PT163&dq=%22A+ruler+that+has+but+an+army+has+one+hand,+but+he+who+has+a+navy+has+both.%22&source=bl&ots=jS__N1LP8U&sig=GuCyl4v-BeAwUpmB1PDaIxAcSeY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjV_9KHxMjeAhXmY98KHTStBRgQ6AEwBHoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22A%20ruler%20that%20has%20but%20an%20army%20has%20one%20hand%2C%20but%20he%20who%20has%20a%20navy%20has%20both.%22&f=false (2015), by Thom Wheeler, p. 163
Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone
As quoted in The Military Quotation Book by James Charlton, p. 37.
“Can the Army win the war before the Navy loses it?”
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841–1920) Royal Navy admiral of the fleet
The World Crisis, Vol 3, 1916-1918, Part I (1927), Churchill, Thornton Butterworth (London), p. 283.
“The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.”
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862–1933) British Liberal statesman
Quoted by Admiral 'Jacky' Fisher in Memories p.18 https://archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/18/mode/1up (1919).
“It is not possible to foretell the reaction of certain elements in the Army and Navy.”
Yoshijirō Umezu (1882–1949) Japanese general
Quoted in "The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb" - Page 107 - by Dennis Wainstock - History - 1996.
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
Letter to French Laurence (12 May 1797) after hearing of the mutinies in the Royal Navy, quoted in R. B. McDowell (ed.), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Volume IX: May 1796–July 1797 (Cambridge University Press, 1970), p. 333
1790s
Ludwig von Mises book Omnipotent Government
Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War (1944)
Context: The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to the army within the political structure. Even in peacetime the army is supreme; it is the predominant factor in political life. The subjects must obey the government as soldiers must obey their superiors. Within a militarist community there is no freedom; there are only obedience and discipline.