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Oh, it's home again and home again, America for me! I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea To the…

— Henry Van Dyke

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it…

— Jacques Maritain

“The Nantucketer, he alone resides and riots on the sea; he alone, in Bible language, goes down to it in ships; to and fro…

— Herman Melville

“I keep a large map of the world hanging above my bed. Everybody wants to own land, but I want to own the oceans.”

— Jarod Kintz

With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed…

— Carsten Jensen

“The goal of Seasteading is for wealthy people to eventually secede into fully independent nation-states, floating in the open ocean—protected from sea-level rise and…

— Naomi Klein

The ocean is the grand vehicle of trade, and the uniter of distant nations. To us it is peculiarly kind, not only as it…

— James Hervey

Having therefore no foreign establishments, either colonial or military, the ships of war of the United States, in war, will be like land birds,…

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, as an example to every…

— Winston Churchill

By all means, let someone else have Pearl Harbor.

— Charles A. Lockwood

“Possibly a man who hates the land should dwell on shore forever. Alienation and the long voyages at sea will compel him once again…

— Yukio Mishima

“The things my brother and I don't say could pave over the Atlantic Ocean.”

— Lyndsay Faye