Merchant Marine Quotes

• But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.

  Joseph C. Lincoln

  Marine, Hands, Years

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• (Mariners) have written one of its most brilliant chapters. They have delivered the goods when and where needed in every theater of operations and across every ocean in the biggest, the most difficult and dangerous job ever undertaken. As time goes on, there will be greater public understanding of our merchant's fleet record during this war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Jobs, War, Ocean

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• People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective.

  William Howard Taft

  Running, Country, Marine

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• Living in a bubble as I said in a featherbed of privilege. That's why leaving home, leaving the prep school and going to the University of Michigan in the early '60s was a moment of awakening and to go to a place like Michigan and to see suddenly a world in flames and the injustices all around was quite a wake up call. I lasted a year and a half at Michigan before I dropped out and joined the merchant marines and I was a merchant marine for my sophomore year then I came back to Michigan.

  Bill Ayers

  Home, School, Marine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I was arrested 1965. I had come back from the merchant marines, got into conversations about the war. I had never heard of Vietnam until I was in the merchant marines in constitution square in Athens, and I picked up the New York Herald or the International Herald Tribune and there was my first introduction of the word Vietnam.

  Bill Ayers

  New York, War, Marine

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• I met Mel [Brooks] backstage in Anne's [Bancroft] dressing room. He was wearing one of those pea coats, pea jackets that were made famous by the Merchant Marines, and I admired it and he said, "You know, they used to call this a urine jacket, but it didn't sell."

  Gene Wilder

  Marine, Coats, Rooms

  Source: keranews.org

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• In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Military, School, Marine

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• I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley.

  Douglass North

  Strong, War, School

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• Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine.

  Clint Walker

  Summer, Marine, New Orleans

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