It was a symposium of horror and heroism, the like of…

In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.

— John Green

“Many of those who elected to remain might have escaped. 'Chivalry' is a mild appellation for their conduct. Some of the vaunted knights of…

— The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters

That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary…

— Richard Hough

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

— E. B. White

“There are not many other such places where the maritime element of our national strength cannot be applied, but where this is true, where…

— J.C. Wylie

It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only…

— John Henrik Clarke

The wide difference between the two characters, the slowness and want of energy of the Spartans as contrasted with the dash and enterprise of…

— Thucydides

It's easier for China to assert its maritime power by creating artificial islands in the South China Sea than by defying the U.S. Pacific…

— David Ignatius

Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the supremacy of…

— Peter Padfield

[Somali maritime violence] is a response to greedy Western nations, who invade and exploit Somalia's water resources illegally. It is not a piracy, it…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part, the number…

— Richard Hough

“The dangers of the sea should always take precedence over the violence of the enemy”

— Ben Bryant

The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen so vividly…

— Russ Carnahan

“The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without the wood…

— Kathleen Valentine

Maritime transportation is critical to job creation, climate resiliency, and trade.

— Jake Auchincloss