Protect the sons of peace.—Crabbe.
The Navy
It doth command the empire of the sea.
Shakespeare, “Antony and Cleopatra.”
Naval strategy has for its end to found, support, and increase, as well in peace as in war, the sea power of the country.—Capt. A. T. Mahan.
Hearts of oak are our ships,
Hearts of oak are our men.
David Garrick.
The City
The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always been the first places of civilization whence light and heat radiated out into the dark cold world.—Theodore Parker.