Worth Repeating

National Guard Bureau

WASHINGTON, July 28, 1998 – The International Year of the Ocean

 
 "The sea never changes, and its works, for all the talk of  man, are wrapped in mystery."
 Joseph Conrad
 British writer
 1857-1924
 
 "Beginnings are apt to be shadowy, and so is the beginning  of the great mother life, the sea."
 Rachel Carson
 American biologist
 1907-1964
 
 "It is not the taking of individual ships or convoys, be  they few or many, that strikes down the money power of a  nation; it is the possession of that overbearing power on  the sea which drives the enemy’s flag from i..."
 Rear Adm. Alfred Thayer Mahan
 American naval officer
 1840-1914
 
 "Who can say of a particular sea that it is old? Distilled  by the sun, kneaded by the moon, it is renewed in a year, in  a day, or in an hour."
 Thomas Hardy
 English writer
 1840-1928
 
 "He who commands the sea has command of everything."
 Themistocles
 Athenian general
 c.528-462 B.C.