Without Acquiring Quotes
- No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power. — Samuel Eliot Morison
- I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk… — Henry David Thoreau
- No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. — Ralph Waldo Emerson