Frank Knox

“No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.”

“A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.”

“The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle, anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.”

“We've got to lick the Germans and the Japanese, and we're going to do it.”

“The world is on the verge of a new era, not of conquest, but of commerce and intelligence.”

“The best way to insure against the U.S. again being forced to take up arms is for this country to be so strong that no nation, or group of nations, would dare to attack us.”