Medieval England was a great military power with a sophisticated machinery of government, but her naval administration, at best improvised and for… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul. The inhabitants of my small country, Costa Rica,… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
War is an extraordinary condition to be in - to be, for example, in the combat information center of a warship [and… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Tools arm the man. One can well say that man is capable of bringing forth a world; he lacks only the necessary… — Novalis Copy Share Image
It was very much an Australian/New Zealand initiative to have a nuclear free South Pacific. And the Americans were very apprehensive about… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not myTime, the flood that does not flow. Between the double and the… — Adam Skirving Copy Share Image
The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We have to be vigilant on two fronts: (1) to not let our anti-imperialism lead to the defense of authoritarian regimes in… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
In every age states of varying size and constitution and at every level of development have found naval warfare to be one… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
You don't fight to protect warships or old men. Like the book says, you fight to save your civilization. And so often… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
