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“We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy is now pitifully small and has been reduced in size by the current Government, seeking economies to finance its social programmes. Fine while there is no threat to our security. But what use would schools and hospitals be if we could not protect our imports?”

“The reason territorial monarchs failed time after time against maritime powers was not that absolutist, non-consensual governments were incapable of building great fleets in peace - quite the reverse - but that they were unable to fund them in the crises of war. Mainly this was because they were forced to divert resources from the fleet to their armies, to fight territorial rivals frequently financed by their maritime enemy from the profits of sea trade.”

War Reason Government Fighting Enemy Sea Building Resources Army Crisis Trade Profit Fund Reverse Incapable Rivals Monarchs Territorial Maritime

Author:Peter Padfield

“If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.”

Ifs Want Government America Politics Sea Red Borders Maps Covered Central America

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986

“Force was the factor in the government of the world when Christ was born, and force was the source and exercise of authority both by Church and State when Columbus sailed from Palos. The Wise Men traveled from the East toward the West under the guidance of the Star of Bethlehem. The spirit of the equality of all men before God and the law moved westward from Calvary with its revolutionary influence upon old institutions, to the Atlantic Ocean. Columbus carried it westward across the seas.”

Source: The columbian oration delivered at the dedication ceremonies of the World's fair at Chicago, Oct. 21, 1892

“Global warming experts are saying that sea levels could rise 20 feet. Apparently their strategy for surviving this is to stand on top of a pile of government research grant money.”

Government Levels Sea Feet Research Strategy Experts Global Warming Grants Surviving

Author:Fred Thompson

“No man ever saw the people of whom he forms a part. No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States. Its personnel extends through all the nations, and across the seas, and into every corner of the world in the persons of the representatives of the United States in foreign capitals and in foreign centres of commerce.”

People Men World Persons States Government Form Nations United United States Saws Sea Corners Midst Representatives Commerce Centre Personnel Corners Of The World

Book:Addresses, Messages and Speeches, 1897-

Source: Addresses, Messages and Speeches, 1897-

“Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.”

People Country Government Sea Wind Ships Sail

Author:Ludwig Borne

“We need a firm cap on carbon emissions from fossil fuels. No coal, oil, or gas could enter the economy until the buyer had a permit. All permits would be auctioned by the federal government, and the number of permits auctioned would be decreased by three percent per year. Permits could be traded, but they could not be created out of whole cloth by companies that plant forests or dump iron filings at sea.”

“[Director] Peter Wallerstein does great work rescuing sea life along the shores of LA, and I helped raise money for sanctuaries such as Chimp Haven, who are now taking in over two hundred medical lab chimps released from government-funded medical testing labs.”

Doe Two Government Sea Havens Directors Hundred Raises Medical Shore Peter Testing Great Work Sanctuary Labs Sea Life

Author:Alison Eastwood

“The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.”

People Ifs Government Sea

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most.”

Government Able United Cities Sea Needed Commitment Dues Oil London Kingdoms United Kingdom Westminster City Of London North Sea

Author:Iain Duncan Smith

“My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.”

Government Together Lasts Mother Father Parent Class Teacher Sea Middle Design Mines Middle Class Substitutes Sixty

Author:Lewis Black