Army Quote by Alfred Thayer Mahan

Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

We was like two ships that clashed in the night.

— Archie Bunker

“The Royal Navy had not built its magnificent reputation over the centuries by avoiding battle.”

— Arthur Nicholson

By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some…

— John Byng

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family

— Tacitus

The army of the sea shall stand before the city, then shall go away for a passage that shall not be very long, as…

— Nostradamus

As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing,never-sinking…

— Herman Melville

“The Atlantic is a stormy moat, and the Mediterranean, The blue pool in the old garden, More than five thousand years has drunk sacrifice…

— Robinson Jeffers

I myself have seen the floating ships And nothing will ever be the same The shouts, The harrowing voices within the house. I stand…

— Hilda Doolittle

“Beyond them fly ships with names like Spirit of Lykos, Hope of Tinos, and Echo of Ragnar. They are painted white and led by…

— Pierce Brown

Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness.

— Christina, Queen of Sweden