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I am throwing this out to all the forum members. What cool quotations have you seen that you would like to see as a ship's motto? I have been trying to come up with one for a starship I have been working on, the USS Vanguard, NCC-65747. I once saw one posted in an earlier incarnation of the Forums. Something about "bloodied but unbowed." The contributor has suggested it as a more appropriate one than the motto the Defiant currently has. Anyway if anyone has any really cool mottos I would appreciate hearing them.
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These are quotes I've chosen for my ships...
Nightshade NX-79031: "I am brother to dragons and companion to owls." -- Job
Frontier NX-80426: "A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye." -- Samuel Grafton
Eclipse NX-94359: "We confide in our strength without boasing of it, we respect that of others without fearing it." -- Thomas Jefferson
Sentinel NX-98048: "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Vigilance NX-98602: "Stand your ground, don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here." -- John Parker
Endurance NX-98099: "It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions." -- Daniel Defoe
Barrage NX-99021: "In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance, my head is bloody, but unbowed." -- W. E. Henley
Destiny: NX-100498 "If I have not seen far, it is because giants stand on my shoulders. If I have seen far, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants." -- Anonymous
------------------ Lyta Vorlon: "Our great mistake. Our failing. And now your failing. The error is compounded." Delenn: "What mistake?" Lyta Vorlon: "The first one, the one from which all mistakes proceed: The error of Pride..."
can someone remember it exactly, it was by Tennyson.
------------------ With the first link, a chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." Capt. Jean-Luc Picard - The Drumhead
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"A people who would give up essential Liberty to obtain a measure of Security, deserve neither Liberty nor Security." -- T. Jefferson
"Don't Tread on Me." -- American Revolutionary Slogan
"And the Serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field." -- Genesis (Used for Covert Operations Vessel USS Serpent)
"...Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, pressed to the walls, dying, but FIGHTING BACK!" -- Last lines of Claud McKay's poem "If we must die" (Used in USS Invictus)
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That is the one I was looking for. The one for the USS Barrage. Thanks Vorlon.
And for AndrewR Voyager's motto is "For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be."
I personally think this is one of the best mottos anyone has come up (better than what Defiant got) but as they say, it is already taken.
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Well, my favorite one is already used for the Yamato, unfortunately: "I have sworn [upon the altar of God] eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." -Thomas Jefferson (For some reason, TPTB left out the part in brackets. Either that, or the Okudas forgot it when they wrote the encyclopedia...)
I used this one for the Valkyrie: "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." -Ambrose Redmoon
------------------ "I fart in your general direction!" -John Cleese, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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It may be left off because it's more commonly quoted without the God part.
Possibly because it can be confusing, especially when one considers that the phrase is explaining why Jefferson is opposing the establishment of a state religion in the face of the insistence of the clergy. (The full quote is "They [the clergy] believe that I wil oppose them at every turn, and they are right, for I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility towards every tyranny over the mind of man!")
"I am made from the dust of the stars, the oceans flow in my veins." -- Anonymous
"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." -- Eden Phillpots
"God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies." -- Marshall de Villares
"In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." -- Alexander Pope
"In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." -- William Shakespeare
"Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"If we are strong, our character will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help." -- John F. Kennedy
"You cannot conquer a free man, the worst you can do is kill him." -- Robert H. Heinlein
------------------ Lyta Vorlon: "Our great mistake. Our failing. And now your failing. The error is compounded." Delenn: "What mistake?" Lyta Vorlon: "The first one, the one from which all mistakes proceed: The error of Pride..."
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