John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher Quotes

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL.... Nature is no respecter of birth or money power when she lavishes her mental and physical gifts. We fight God when our Social System dooms the brilliant clever child of a poor man to the same level as his father.

Sea fighting is pure common sense. The first of all its necessities is SPEED, so as to be able to fight--When you like, Where you like, and How you like.

...Jellicoe had all the Nelsonic attributes except one - he is totally wanting in the great gift of Insubordination. Nelson's greatest achievements were all solely due to his disobeying orders!..... Any fool can obey orders! But it required a Nelson to disobey Sir John Jervis at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, to disregard the order to retire at Copenhagen, to go into the Battle of the Nile by night with no charts against orders, and, to crown all, to enter into the Battle of Trafalgar in a battle formation contrary to all the Sea orders of the time! BLESS HIM! Alas! Jellicoe is saturated with Discipline!

If any subordinate opposes me, I will make his wife a widow, his children fatherless and his home a dunghill.

It is an historical fact that the British Navy stubbornly resists change.

The luxuries of the present are the necessities of the future. Our grandfathers never had a bath-room....

Hit first! Hit hard! Keep on hitting!! (The 3 H's)

Big risks bring big success!

We are an Island. Every soldier that wants to go anywhere out of England - a sailor has got to carry him there on his back.

It is very silly indeed to build vessels of War so strong as to last a hundred years. They are obsolete in less than ten years.

Those who rise in peace are men of formality and routine, cautious, inoffensive...Hawke represented the spirit of war, the ardour, the swift initiative, the readiness of resource, the impatience of prescription and routine, without which no great things are done!

The 3 Requisites for Success - Ruthless, Relentless, Remorseless (The 3 R's)

Can the Army win the war before the Navy loses it?

Even a man's faults may reflect his virtues.

O.M.G. - Oh! My God!