Top 7 Alfred Thayer Mahan Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.”

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

2. “Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.”

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

3. “The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.”

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

4. “Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.”

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

5. “Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it.”

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

6. “Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within.”

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

7. “It is only when effort is frittered away in the feeble dissemination of the guerre-de-course, instead of being concentrated in a great combination to control the sea, that commerce-destroying justly incurs the reproach of misdirected effort. It is a fair deduction from analogy, that two contending armies might as well agree to respect each other’s communications, as two belligerent states to guarantee immunity to hostile commerce.”

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

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