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“No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.”
― David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

“the troops should be housed in quarters that were thoroughly ventilated and disinfected. As a crowning touch of lunacy to the recommendations, the War Department advised that the soldiers avoid moving about in the sun, making every effort to move outdoors only in the coolest part of the day. It was certain that none of these medical people had ever been in a war.”
― Jeff Shaara, The Old Lion: A Novel of Theodore Roosevelt

“One sailor described a man-of-war as a “set of human machinery, in which every man is a wheel, a band, or a crank, all moving with wonderful regularity and precision to the will of its machinist—the all-powerful captain.”
― David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

“no one should have to be ordered to prepare for war. It’s a dangerous world,”
― Jeff Shaara, The Old Lion: A Novel of Theodore Roosevelt