Quote of the Day
Authors Categories Blog Quote Maker Videos
 

Alfred Thayer Mahan Quotes: Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.
         

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


Alfred Thayer Mahan
Check all other quotes by Alfred Thayer Mahan

Want to display this quote image on your website or blog? Simply copy and paste the below code on your website/blog.

Embed:

Format of this image is jpg. The width and height of image are 1200 and 630, repectively. This image is available for free to download.





Citation

Use the citation below to add this quote to your bibliography:


Styles:

×

MLA Style Citation


"Alfred Thayer Mahan Quotes." Quoteslyfe.com, 2024. Sat. 20 Apr. 2024. <https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/Free-supplies-and-open-retreat-are-two-356871>.





Check out


Other quotes of Alfred Thayer Mahan


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

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



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.

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.



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

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



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

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



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

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





Other quotes you may like


I try very hard to be annoying! Don't insult my ability to annoy!

I try very hard to be annoying! Don't insult my ability to annoy!



People don't act the way they do because of me. They just act out their own projection of reality, and so do I.

People don't act the way they do because of me. They just act out their own projection of reality, and so do I.



I'm stone, nothing touches me-nothing.

I'm stone, nothing touches me-nothing.



I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.



I've always kind of hated films about climate change.

I've always kind of hated films about climate change.



God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.

God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.



I have yet to hear of anyone who, on his deathbed, wished he'd spent more time at the office.

I have yet to hear of anyone who, on his deathbed, wished he'd spent more time at the office.



Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.



For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain

For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain



The digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. The films look like they did when I was first looking through the viewfinder.

The digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. The films look like they did when I was first looking through the viewfinder.




Quote Description


This page presents the quote "Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.". Author of this quote is Alfred Thayer Mahan. This quote is about military, supplies, safety, two, essentials, army, retreat,.