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Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy QUOTES

Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy QUOTES

1 " Stoddert named Joshua Humphreys Chief Naval Constructor of the United States, and authorized him to oversee naval shipbuilding operations throughout the country. But Humphreys’s efforts to impose his authority on shipwrights in other cities met with strong resistance. Different techniques, styles, and designs prevailed in the various seaports, and much of the terminology had evolved into regional dialects that outsiders found unintelligible. To ask a master builder to take direction from another master builder, in another region, was contrary to every tradition of the profession. Humphreys now proposed to bring openness and transparency to an enterprise that had always been shrouded in the medieval secrecy of the craftsmen’s guild. Shipbuilding is a “noble art,” he told a colleague. “I consider it my duty to convey to my brother builders every information in my power. "

― Ian W. Toll , Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy

2 " The french Captain tells me, I have caused a War with France,” Truxtun wrote Stoddert. “If so I am glad of it, for I detest Things being done by Halves.” The "

― Ian W. Toll , Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy

3 " How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes? "

― Ian W. Toll , Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy

4 " keep faith in “the advantages to be expected from perseverance…so long as any chance for success may remain. "

― Ian W. Toll , Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy

5 " That day buried levees, birthdays, royal parades, and the arrogation of precedence in society by certain self-styled friends of order, but truly styled friends of privileged orders…. In social circles all are equal, whether in or out of office, foreign or domestic, & the same equality exists among ladies as among gentlemen. No precedence therefore, of any one over another, exists either in right or practice at dinners, assemblies, or any other occasions. “Pell-mell” and “next the door” form the basis of etiquette in the societies of this country. "

― Ian W. Toll , Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy

6 " United States sailed on November 3, reaching the port of Lisbon three and a half weeks later. "

― Ian W. Toll , Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy

7 " King, Dean. Harbors and High Seas: An Atlas and Geographical Guide to the Complete Aubrey-Maturin Novels of Patrick O’Brian. New York: Owl Books, 2000. "

― Ian W. Toll , Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy

8 " Admiral Cochrane’s nephew, Thomas Cochrane, was the famed fighting captain whose Mediterranean cruises in the HMS Speedy would be the inspiration for Patrick O’Brian’s novel Master and Commander (1970). "

― Ian W. Toll , Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy