All wars will be settled by sea power. Erich Raeder
We are as near to heaven by sea as by land. Humphrey Gilbert
Arms, and the man I sing, who, forced by Fate, And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate, Expell'd and exil'd, left the Trojan shore; Long labours both by sea and land he bore. John Dryden
If the importation of foreign cattle, for example, were made ever so free, so few could be imported, that the grazing trade of Great Britain could be little affected by it. Live cattle are, perhaps, the only commodity of which the transportation is more expensive by sea than by land. Adam Smith
Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye. Pliny the Younger
We are as near to heaven by sea as by land! (Humphrey Gilbert) English Proverb