1"I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight"
John Paul Jones
1779
On the Bonhomme Richard. Off the northern coast of England.
2"Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"
Admiral David Farragut
August 5, 1864
Battle of Mobile Bay
3"I shall return"
Douglas McArthur that he would return to free the Philipines (Corregidor)
March 11, 1942
4"War is Hell"
William Tecumseh Sherman
September 1864
Atlanta
5"You may fire when ready, Gridley"
Commodore George Dewey
May 1, 1898
Battle of Manila Bay
6"We have met the enemy and they are ours"
Oliver Hazard Perry
September 10, 1813
Lake Erie
7"Nuts"
Brig. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe
December 22, 1944
Bastogne, Belgium
8"Don't give up the ship"
James Lawrence
June 1, 1813
USS Chesapeake. a few miles north of Boston
9"Lafayette, we are here"
Charles E. Stanton
July 4, 1917
in a speech honoring Lafayette at his tomb in Paris