Quotes about Naval Diplomacy

Thomas Jefferson

We ought to begin a naval power, if we mean to carry on our own commerce. Can we begin it on a more honorable occasion or with a weaker foe?

He was referring to attacking the Barbary States. The Barbary Pirates had an incredible extortion racket going in the Mediterranean. If nations would pay them an annual sum each year, they would not attack and seize merchant ships of that country and sell the ships and goods while holding the sailors for ransom. See {640846}.

Ambrose Bierce

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Shimon Peres

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.

John Adams

A naval power, next to the militia, is the natural defense of the United States.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

We have not the navy, and, what is worse, we are not willing to have the navy, that will weigh seriously in any disputes with those nations whose interests will there conflict with our own.

See {629350} for his reason that we had to have a strong navy.

Carlos Mesa

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

Ray Mabus

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

America’s oldest foreign policy problem has been freedom of the seas for American shipping. Since the end of WWII, the U. S. however performed this function—and pays for it—for the entire world with some minor exceptions.

Horatio Nelson

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

Naval Diplomacy Quotes