Henry Clay Quotes

The United States, therefore, works to ensure that any actions we take are consistent with international laws and norms - including those reflected in the Law of the Sea Convention. It's worth remembering that our presence in the region is nothing new.

We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air.

The United States Navy has kept the sea lanes open for the entire world.

I believe it is the responsibility of our government to protect the U.S., including U.S.-flag vessels.

I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what.

We must also win really sufficient and, above all, practical, guarantees for the freedom of the seas and for the further fulfilment of our economic and political tasks throughout the world.

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

The use of the sea and air is common to all; neither can the title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession thereof.

To remove as much as possible the occasions of making war, it might be better for us to abandon the ocean altogether, that being the element whereon we shall be principally exposed to jostle with other nations

Another privilege of a citizen of the United States is to demand the care and protection of the Federal government over his life, liberty, and property when on the high seas or within the jurisdiction of a foreign government.

The high seas - in other words, the oceans beyond the 200-mile national limits - are a lawless realm.

The Channel is an international waterway through which the Russians are quite free to pass - and over which we have no exclusive right.

A border is a border. I have to be conscious of both my borders. I will also have be conscious of my sea. It is less talked about.

What we are doing in the Pacific is we're flying, operating, and sailing wherever international law allows, and the purpose of that is to demonstrate that we are standing up for those rules.

The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation cannot pretend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public usage.

We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.

Events of October 1962 indicated, as they had all through history, that control of the sea means security. Control of the seas can mean peace. Control of the seas can mean victory. The United States must control the seas if it is to protect your security.

America is the one that leads the effort to make sure the freedom of navigation in the South China Sea is protected.

He always wants to expand every one's rights: illegal aliens, terrorists, Russian spies, except American citizens.

With earth's burgeoning human population to feed we must turn to the sea with understanding and new technology. We need to farm it as we farm the land.

The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene: in the sound of sea and sand, in the singing shell, in the heat of sun and sky, in the sultriness of the gentle hours, in the siesta, in the stir of birds and insects.

[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

Every person is a Hindu who regards and owns this Bharat Bhumi, this land from the Indus to the seas, as his Fatherland as well as Holyland, i.e. the land of the origin of his religion... Consequently the so-called aboriginal or hill tribes also are Hindus: because India is their Fatherland as well as their Holyland of whatever form of religion or worship they follow.