British Quote by Nicholas Rodger

“The history of sea power is largely, though by no means solely, a narrative of contests between nations, of mutual rivalries, of violence frequently…

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

“The sea slapped ominously, confessing its strategic impartiality. The sea is an international sea, and the sky a universal sky. Often we forget that.…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

It is not surprising that only one medieval state, Venice, long possessed anything clearly identifiavble as a navy in this sense. We shall see…

— Nicholas Rodger

“Now that war was spilling over into different continents, the resulting dispersal of Britain’s naval resources left traditional European frontier sites like Menorca more…

— Linda Colley

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

If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling…

— Wendell Willkie

The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation cannot pretend to have the…

— Elizabeth I

Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society.

— Nicholas Rodger

The sea has formed the English character and the essential England is to be found in those who follow it. From blue waters they…

— John Buchan

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

— Ernest Bevin

[Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets…

— Marsilio Ficino

Although a precise outlook on the international situation is hard for anyone to make, it is needless to say that now the time has…

— Isoroku Yamamoto