Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1910 |
| AUTHOR: | Clifford K. Berryman (1869–1949) |
| QUOTATION: | Stout hearts, my laddies! If the row comes, REMEMBER THE MAINE, and show the world how American sailors can fight. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | On February 15, 1898, the warship Maine blew up in the harbor at Havana, Cuba. Edward T. Folliard, correspondent and historian of The Washington Post, said of Berryman’s cartoon: “Thus was born the slogan and battle cry of the Spanish-American War.”—The Washington Post, September 24, 1972, Potomac magazine, special section, “The Washington Post, 1972,” p. 8. |
| SUBJECTS: | War |