The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and FutureLittle, Brown, 1898 - 314 sivua |
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A. T. MAHAN action adequate advantages Anegada Passage arise armies Atlantic blockade Britain British canal Caribbean Sea Central America Central American centres century chiefly Clayton-Bulwer Treaty coast colonies commercial communication continent Cuba defence depends dispute enemy essential Europe European civilization existence external factor fleet force foreign future Gulf of Mexico Hawaiian ideal ideas importance impulse influence interests islands Isthmian Isthmus Jamaica land latter less maritime material Mediterranean ment merely miles military Mississippi Monroe doctrine Mosquito Coast movement Napoleon nations natural naval power navy Nicaragua ocean organized ourselves Pacific pass peace political ports position possession preparation present prosperity question reasonable recognized regions result rival routes Samana Bay sea power seaboard ships shores side sion Spain spirit statesmen strait Strait of Florida strategic strength territory tion trade treaty United vital West Windward Passage world at large Yucatan Yucatan Channel
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Sivu 208 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Sivu 216 - Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more ; Men were deceivers, ever ; One foot on sea and one on shore ; To one thing constant never...
Sivu 123 - I will liken him unto a wise man, that built his house upon a rock; the rain descended, the floods came, the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock.
Sivu 54 - Let us start from the fundamental truth, warranted by history, that the control of the seas, and especially along the great lines drawn by national interest or national commerce, is the chief among the merely material elements in the power and prosperity of nations.
Sivu 251 - Had it so happened, our civilization would have hardly stood in any more intimate relation to the Romano-Greek than to the Indian and Assyrian culture. That there is a bridge connecting the past glory of Hellas and Rome with the prouder fabric of modern history ; that Western Europe is Romanic and Germanic Europe classic ; that the names of Themistocles and Scipio have to us a very different sound from those of Asoka and Salmanassar ; that Homer and Sophocles are not merely like the Vedas and Ealidasa...
Sivu 113 - States, if they rightly estimate the part they may play in the great drama of human progress, is intrusted a maritime interest, in the broadest sense of the word, which demands, as one of the conditions of its exercise and its safety, the organized force adequate to control the general course of events at sea; to maintain, if necessity arise, not arbitrarily, but as those in whom interest and power alike justify the claim to do so, the laws that shall regulate maritime warfare.
Sivu 94 - As Article VIII. expressly declares, the contracting parties by the convention desired, not only 'to accomplish a particular object, but to establish a general principle.' This general principle is manifested by the provisions of the first seven articles and is that the interoceanic routes there specified should, under the sovereignty of the states traversed by them, be neutral and free to all nations alike. The...
Sivu 45 - To have a central position such as this, and to be alone, having no rival and admitting no alternative throughout an extensive tract, are conditions that at once fix the attention of the strategist — it may be added, of the statesmen of commerce likewise. But to this striking combination is to be added the remarkable relations borne by these singularly placed islands to the greater commercial routes traversing this vast expanse known to us as the Pacific, not only, however, to those now actually...
Sivu 27 - While Great Britain is undoubtedly the most formidable of our possible enemies, both by her great navy and by the strong positions she holds near our coasts, it must be added that a cordial understanding with that country is one of the first of our external interests. Both nations doubtless, and properly, seek their own advantage ; but both, also, are controlled by a sense of law and justice, drawn from the same sources, and deep-rooted in their instincts. Whatever temporary aberration may occur,...
Sivu 53 - Let us not sink from pitting a broad selfinterest against the narrow self-interest to which some would restrict us. The demands of our three great seaboards, the Atlantic, the Gulf, and the Pacific — each for itself, and all for the strength that comes from drawing closer the ties between them — are calling for the extension, through the Isthmian Canal, of that broad sea common along which, and along which alone, in all ages prosperity has moved.