Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.
Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.
Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.
Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory. The invention of hell measured by our Christianity of today, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the deity nor his son is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilled.
Fleets cannot operate without bases.
I regularly buy and sell cars, but I do not buy and sell fleets.
One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure and powerful allies, fell all at once, and his whole strength, like a spider's web, was. . . irrecoverably broken at a touch.
