“The NATO alliance is not just a transactional relationship, once again. That alliance serves our interests. That alliance has been critical to keeping security in Europe, so that we do not face another world war.”

-James Franklin Jeffrey

“He who commands the sea has command of everything.”

― Themistocles

“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

-Epictetus

“When paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.”

— Thomas Kuhn

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

-Winston Churchill

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”

-Euripides

“I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.”

-Johann Sebastian Bach

“There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.”

-George Washington

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein