Don't talk to me about Naval tradition! It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.