Quotes about Maritime Expansion

Thor Heyerdahl

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.

Robert Ballard

Before you can exploit, you explore.... When President Reagan signed the paper defining our Undersea Exclusionary Zone, we doubled the size of the United States land. But unlike the Louisiana Purchase where we had a Lewis & Clark Expedition to survey the new land, we don't know what we have.

Actually starting in the Obama Administration, his ship and a NOAAA Government Research ship both were surveying the new undersea areas, However, it would take 20 such ships to do the job in the next decade–so vast was the new territory that we now have.

Jean-Lambert Tallien

Spanish and Dutch ships with whose help we would hasten to the banks of the Thames and destroy the new Carthage [London]

This quotation shows that the French revolutionaries wished for an invasion of England, even before Napoleon came to power. Part of the reason was the traditional enmity between France and England, even before the French Revolution, and the other part that England was covertly working against the French Revolution and ideologically stood for monarchy and inequality, while the French of the time were Republicans for whom equality was not only an ideal, but part of the law and much of post-revolutionary reality.

Joseph Brodsky

Whether by theft or by artistry or by conquest, when it comes to time, Venetians are the world's greatest experts. They bested time like no one else.

Neil MacGregor

Thanks to the unprecedented reach of British navigation, London in the early 18th century was not just the emporium of the world, it was the first place in which it was possible to assemble artifacts from around the world and allow people to study them.

John Paul Jones

When the enemies' land force is once conquered and expelled from the continent, our Marine will rise as if by enchantment and become, within the memory of persons now living, the wonder and envy of the world.

Bernhard von Bulow

English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power.

Ottar Svarte

Thou seaman-prince! thy men are paid: The scat on Gotlanders is laid; Young man or old To our seamen bold Must pay, to save his head: The Yngling princes fled, Eysvssel people bled; Who can't defend the wealth they have Must die, or share with the rover brave

Epic Historical Poet. The king had to share the booty with the crew in order to get a crew. When Olaf Haraldson went on his first boat raid as a teen, he was crowned king on the boat, but had to row and fight with the others for at that point he had no land or property except the boat. He died controlling almost all of Norway.

Maritime Expansion Quotes