Land Quote by Frank B. Kellogg

I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high.

— Frank B. Kellogg

You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses…

— Barack Obama

But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, England,…

— Samuel Eliot Morison

“Military force is another element of power. It provides a nation the capability to impose it's will on another nation through the threat or…

— John M. House

The common sense of the word (navy) as we use it today refers to a permanent fighting service made up of ships designed for…

— Nicholas Rodger

“Building a naval power takes generations, not so much to develop the necessary technology as to pass along the accumulated experience that creates good…

— George Friedman

In my opinion, any navy less than that which would give us the habitual command of our own coast and seas would be little…

— John C. Calhoun

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There are not many other such places where the maritime element of our national strength cannot be applied, but where this is true, where…

— J.C. Wylie

States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.

— John Mearsheimer

They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty sceptre, O'er lesser powers that be.

— William Ross Wallace

The powers know that the people at large are like children whose despair, sorrow, and tears can be turned into joy with a little…

— Emma Goldman