“Tribute or war is the usual alternative of these pirates. If we yield the former, it will require sums which our people will feel. Why not begin a navy then and decide on war? We cannot begin in a better cause or against a weaker foe.”

-Thomas Jefferson

“You can also commit injustice by doing nothing”

-Marcus Aurelius

“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