Naval John Rodgers

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    “It is now time to stop and to ask ourselves the question which my last commanding officer, Admiral Hyman Rickover, asked me and every other young naval officer who serves or has served in an atomic submarine. For our Nation M for all of us M that question is, “Why not the best?””
    —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

    “This is my commandment, that ye love one another.”
    —Bible: New Testament Jesus, in John 15:12.

    “No bones made, bans laid, or boons expected,
    No contracts, entails, hereditaments,
    Anything at all that might tie or hem.”
    —William Robert Rodgers (1909–1969)