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Alfred Thayer Mahan has 9 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it.
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The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the more reluctant…
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The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.
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Having therefore no foreign establishments, either colonial or military, the ships of war of the United States, in war, will be like…
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War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare…
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Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.
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Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.
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Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.
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Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would…
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History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.
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The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the more reluctant…
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The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.
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We would not have hurt the child, even if she is our natural enemy. Nor would we have hurt you, if it…
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A roar cut through the melee: a booming growl, a noise that might come out of a she-bear protecting a cub. It…
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Runnin' through the alley and into the melee. Up on the second the sundown. Those run from January, November, December remember the…
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