That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was… — Richard Hough Copy Share Image
“The soul, they say, is divine and the flesh is iniquity. But I am a musician and I ask this - without… — Kathleen Valentine Copy Share Image
The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen… — Russ Carnahan Copy Share Image
“The dangers of the sea should always take precedence over the violence of the enemy” — Ben Bryant Copy Share Image
The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part,… — Richard Hough Copy Share Image
[Somali maritime violence] is a response to greedy Western nations, who invade and exploit Somalia's water resources illegally. It is not a… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
It's easier for China to assert its maritime power by creating artificial islands in the South China Sea than by defying the… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
The wide difference between the two characters, the slowness and want of energy of the Spartans as contrasted with the dash and… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“Many of those who elected to remain might have escaped. 'Chivalry' is a mild appellation for their conduct. Some of the vaunted… — The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters Copy Share Image
If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent… — George Blake Copy Share Image
From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the… — Russ Carnahan Copy Share Image
Both President Obama and I shared the conviction that territorial and maritime disputes in the Asia Pacific region should be settled peacefully… — Benigno Aquino III Copy Share Image
“It was a symposium of horror and heroism, the like of which has not been known in the civilized world since man… — The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters Copy Share Image
If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The reason territorial monarchs failed time after time against maritime powers was not that absolutist, non-consensual governments were incapable of building great… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
I lived for a long time under vast porticos That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires, And whose great pillars, straight… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Since time immemorial it had been the custom before a sea battle for the men to wash and don clean clothes in… — Richard Hough Copy Share Image
English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means,… — Bernhard von Bulow Copy Share Image
None of the serious maritime incidents I had to deal with as transport minister off the pristine Queensland or Western Australian coastline… — Anthony Albanese Copy Share Image