Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
A love of tradition has never weakened a nation.
The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.
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