Naval Supremacy Quotes

Without sea-power Germany's position in the world resembled a mollusk without a shell

Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.

From knowledge, sea power. Ex Scientia Tridens

In the long run sea power will be no match for air power.

The culminating manifestation of naval force in the history of the world.

The United States has the largest and best navy in the world.

The maintenance of naval supremacy is our foundation not only of the empire but of our freedom and our lives.

Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.

If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.

It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway than were to be found in Brest harbour. But her frigates and corvettes still scoured the ocean, closely followed ever by those of her rival. At the uttermost ends of the earth these dainty vessels, with sweet names of girls or of flowers, mangled and shattered each other for the honour of the four yards of bunting which flapped from the end of their gaffs.

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

All wars will be settled by sea power.

With Freedom's lion-banner Britannia rules the waves.

I will allow myself to call it devilish; for this was the new war fiend, destined, along with others of the same breed, to annihilate whole navies and batter down old supremacies.

It was, and is, an illusion, however, to think that the English would have treated us any better, and have allowed our economic growth to have proceeded unchecked if we had had no fleet.

England is not interested in anything but naval dominance and their possessions in America.

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

Navies have been and always will be engines of power, employed in projects of ambition and war.

There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.

At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.

No [British] administration could remain in power that should consent to renounce the right of impressment or to suspend the practice …

American values don't begin and end with destroyers and aircraft carriers.

The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.

...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!