U.S. Navy

About U.S. Navy

“Stout hearts, my laddies! If the row comes, REMEMBER THE MAINE, and show the world how American sailors can fight.”
— Clifford K. Berryman, caption under cartoon, The Washington Post (3 April 1898), p. 1. On February 15, 1898, the warship Maine blew up in the harbor at Havana, Cuba. Edward T. Folliard, correspondent and historian of The Washington Post, said of Berryman's cartoon: "Thus was born the slogan and battle cry of the Spanish-American War". The Washington Post (September 24, 1972), Potomac magazine, special section, "The Washington Post, 1972", p. 8.
“We should have a good navy, and our sea-coast defences should be put in the finest possible condition. Neither of these cost much when it is considered where the money goes, and what we get in return. Money expended in a fine navy not only adds to our security and tends to prevent war in the future, but is very material aid to our commerce with foreign nations in the meantime.”
— Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (1885), emphasis added

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