Quote by James S.A. Corey

“If an enemy ship cannot be taken over by our own crews, it must be sunk! There is to be no deviation from that!”

— Michael G. Kramer

“Some of the smugglers' vessels are former pleasure yachts, hijacked - and never renamed - out of some overdeveloped sense of irony or possibly...sheer…

— Ann Aguirre

“with five other officers to pick up no less than eleven prisoners of six different nationalities. These were the men from the sailship, The…

— Joan Lock

“It is when the pirates count their booty, that they become mere thieves.”

— William Bolitho

“And then he leaves us to our own devices beside a store of gunpowder and flint and a cannon, thereby solidifying our captors’ reputation…

— Mackenzi Lee

“He has robbed none except officials who have stolen from the missions and the poor, and punished none except brutes who mistreat natives.”

— Johnston McCulley

“when we awoke someone had stolen the sea.”

— Harry Turtledove

“... the sea pirates who had the most to do with the creation of the new government owned human slaves. They used human beings…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“My ship had lost crew mates before, yet I sailed on.”

— L.M. Bryski

“Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck." [ On Water ]”

— Guy de Maupassant

“Everyone becomes a captain when they are forced to sail their own ship through troubled waters and through storms.”

— Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“no man who rises to command of a United States naval ship can possibly be a coward. And”

— Herman Wouk