Western Pacific

Western Pacific may refer to:

  • Western Pacific Railroad (1903–1983)
  • Western Pacific Railroad (1862–1870)
  • Western Pacific Airlines (1994-1998)
  • Western Pacific Ocean

Western Pacific may also refer to:

  • British Western Pacific Territories
  • Naval Forces Western Pacific
  • Western Pacific basin


Famous quotes containing the words western and/or pacific:

    When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed
    And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night,
    I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
    Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,
    Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west,
    And thought of him I love.
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. Except in the sacred tests of democracy and in the incantations of the orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force.
    Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)