Quotes by : Alfred Thayer Mahan

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

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

The history of sea power is largely, though by no means solely, a narrative of contests between nations,....

Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely....

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