Quotes by Sea Power Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within. Alfred Thayer Mahan sea-power bed sleep The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the more reluctant must he necessarily be to enter into a melee with equal forces, in which all these advantages will be thrown away, chance reign supreme, and his fleet be place on terms of equality with an assemblage of ships which have never before acted together. Alfred Thayer Mahan sea-power development together All wars will be settled by sea power. Erich Raeder sea-power sea war