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• Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe…
• Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it.
• The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the more reluctant…
• The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.
• Having therefore no foreign establishments, either colonial or military, the ships of war of the United States, in war, will be like…
• War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare…
• Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.
• Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.
• Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

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