Sea Power

Famous quotes containing the words sea and/or power:

“The god Janus never had two more decidedly different faces than your sea captain.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“He had come down, He said, to clean the earth
Of the dirtiness of war.
Now tell of why His power failed Him there?
His power did not fail. It was that, simply,
He found how much the people wanted war.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)