Thayer Mahan Quotes

#1. The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

#2. Is there anything about cyberspace that particularly screams Air Force? Not really. If cyber warfare is going to be as all-encompassing as it's made out to be by its vigorous proponents, then it will disseminate throughout the services even more than the drone phenomenon has.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

#3. Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Dennis Potter

#4. Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

#5. Change can be a good thing.

Kyra Dune

#6. Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.

David Brinkley

#7. Biking through New York's boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to them.

Charles Schumer

#8. Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

#9. God's greatest investment in our lives is our calling

Sunday Adelaja

#10. Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.

Kurt Loder

#11. I think major reorganisation is not something the government's about to do.

Theresa May

#12. Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

#13. Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

#14. Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within.

Alfred Thayer Mahan