Destroyers Quotes

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.
Dennis Prager

Education, Great, Mind

They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf.
James Stockdale

Dark, Around, Another

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.
Scott Nearing

War, Human, Building

President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.
Daniel Ellsberg

Lost, Put, Once

We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
Barney Ross

Two, Three, Force

Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
Barney Ross

Find, Try, Three

Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.
Barney Ross

Destroyers were the first to herald our entrance into the war.
Josephus Daniels

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