Ramius: I remember the days of Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin, when the world trembled at the sound of our rockets. Now they will tremble again, at our silence.
Category: The Hunt for Red October
The Hunt for Red October was Tom Clancy's 1984 debut novel. The story follows a CIA analyst who leads a group of US Naval officers to take possession of a cutting-edge Soviet nuclear submarine from 26 defecting Soviet officers, and the intertwined adventures of Soviet submarine captain Marko Aleksandrovich Ramius and Jack Ryan, a former Marine turned CIA analyst.
Ramius: Ryan, most things in here don’t react well with bullets.
Ramius: Upon reaching the New World, Cortez burned his ships; as a result his men were well motivated.