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

Having therefore no foreign establishments, either colonial or military, the ships of war of the United States, in war, will be like land birds, unab….

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

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

War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every exactio….

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….

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

The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the more reluctant must he necessarily ….

There has been a constant struggle on the part of the military element to keep the end- fighting, or readiness to fight-superior to mere administrati….

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