Admiral Farragaut upon entering Mobile Bay Damn the torpedos. FULL SPEED AHEAD!
Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.
A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king, the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it.
What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. . . . One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. . . . Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.
You're gonna get what's good, you're gonna get what the generals and what the admirals and what - and the enlisted and they'll - we'll get together, we wanna get the right stuff.
The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.
In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.
An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.
