Pacific Quotes
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It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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More Pacific Quotes
Of all the fire-mountains which, like beacons, once blazed along the pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.
john muir— chapter 1: The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West
Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the pacific.
josé rizal— Annotations to Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas
Women are more powerful than they think. A mother's warmth is the essence of motivation. If we could liquefy the encouragement, care and compassion we deliver to our children it would surely fill an expanse greater than the pacific
louise burfitt-dons— Speech to Women's Institute, 2007.
Supposing I had gone to the country [in 1933], and said that Germany was re-arming, and that we must re-arm, does anybody think that this pacific democracy would have rallied to that cry at that moment? I cannot think of anything that would have made the loss of the election from my point of view more certain...we got from the country [in 1935], with a large majority, a mandate for doing a thing no one, twelve months earlier, would have believed possible.
stanley baldwin— Baldwin answering Winston Churchill in the House of Commons (12 November 1936), as quoted in Churchill: A Study in Failure 1900-1939 (1970) by Robert Rhodes James, p. 268
Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the pacific. It is in the pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
dan quayle— Press comment in Hawaii (25 April 1989)
The Venezuelans ought to become inspired by the Honduran model, and strive for a change of government as soon as possible, through pacific, democratic, and constitutional means--and not just electoral--to avoid a national tragedy.
— (March 11, 2010, referring to how Honduras's president had been deposed by the other branches of government), Venezolanos deben imitar a los hondureños
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, “Why Should the Majority Rule?” Harper’s Magazine (New York, 1926)
To learn what the laws of a country are, is not the work of a day even in pacific times, and to persons accustomed to legal enquiries.
— Lord Stowell, Raiding v. Smith (1821), 1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 1062.
In order to have enough of the raw materials...which will be lacking in wartime, we should plan to acquire and use foreign resources existing in our expected sphere of influence, such as Sakhalim, China, and the Southern pacific.
sadao araki— 1933. Quoted in "Carriers in Combat: The Air War at Sea" - Page 43 - by Chester G. Hearn - History - 2007
Women are more powerful than they think. A mother’s warmth is the essence of motivation. If we could liquefy the encouragement, care and compassion we deliver to our children it would surely fill an expanse greater than the pacific.
louise burfitt-dons— Speech to Women's Institute, 2007
To the Legislative Assembly belongs the consideration of measures which may best tend to the development of the resources of the Territory. Oregon possesses within herself many of these, which with enterprise and industry will most surely render her a wealthy, powerful, and prosperous State. She has a fertile soil, and genial climate; she has [vast] forests and abundant fisheries, unlimited water power, pastures upon which even during winter, innumerable flocks and herds can subsist, with no other care than the mere herding; and prairies which could with only moderate labor, furnish the whole of our pacific Territories with bread.
— John P. Gaines (December 1852) "Governor John P. Gaines Legislative Message, 1852", Oregon State Archives, Oregon Secretary of State, Oregon Provisional and Territorial Records, 1852, Calendar No. 9375.
As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal.
— Ted Kulongoski, (January 13, 2003). "Speech by Governor Kulongoski: Inaugural Address", Oregon.gov, State of Oregon.
It is only comparatively primitive machinery that affords a stimulus, and there is already a faint period touch about pacific 231 and Le Pas d'Acier. One feels…that Prokofieff should have written ballets about the spinning jenny and the Luddite riots; that Honegger should have been there to celebrate the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the death of Huskisson with a "Symphonie Triomphale et Funèbre".
Constant Lambert— "Mechanical Romanticism", pp. 209-10.
California is a queer place — in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
d. h. lawrence— Letter (September 24, 1923); published in The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton, E. Mansfield, and W. Roberts (1987), vol. 4.
What the German has done to the Jew in Europe, we are doing to the Jap in the pacific.
charles lindbergh— Journal entry (21 July 1944)
But my friends, my brothers and sisters of the pacific, we know who we are. We carry in our hearts the knowledge that we are the bearers of a proud legacy that surely marks us as people of strength, and courage and will. We have survived in our aquatic continent through many centuries.
ratu sir kamisese mara— Opening address, Pacific Vision festival, Auckland, New Zealand (26 July 1999)
If I had to pick one tribe to go back and live with permanently — and I hate doing this, it’s not a contest — it would be the people of Anuta, in the South pacific. It’s got white beaches, blue seas, good food and gentle, friendly people who have a wonderful philosophy of sharing. And it’s warm.
bruce parry— As quoted in "My hols: Bruce Parry" in Times Online UK (16 September 2007)
...to protect our position in the Norwegian and Arctic areas by threatening the flank of enemy operations against the northern Norwegian areas, and by attacking White Sea convoys...to tie down enemy forces in the Atlantic, so that they cannot operate in the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean or the pacific.
erich raeder— Quoted in "The Great Ships Pass: British Battleships at War" - by Peter Charles Smith - History - 1977
There’s one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year 2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between “ideals,” and with luck they won’t have left their genes behind because they’ll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they’re too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change.
john brunner— context (8) “Isolation”
Canada emerged as a political entity with boundaries largely determined by the fur trade. These boundaries included a vast north temperate land area extending from the Atlantic to the pacific and dominated by the Canadian Shield. The present Dominion emerged not in spite of geography but because of it.
harold innis— Conclusion, p.393.
Back then (in 1985) the issue of the day was nuclear testing, now we are faced with problems such as climate change, overfishing, deforestation, shipments of radioactive materials through pacific waters and nuclear proliferation. We need to remain vigilant so that we won't become victims again.
ratu joni madraiwiwi— Address to Greenpeace, Suva, 10 July 2005
When I assumed command of the pacific Fleet in 31 December, 1941; our submarines were already operating against the enemy, the only units of the Fleet that could come to grips with the Japanese for months to come. It was to the Submarine Force that I looked to carry the load until our great industrial activity could produce the weapons we so sorely needed to carry the war to the enemy. It is to the everlasting honor and glory of our submarine personnel that they never failed us in our days of peril.
chester w. nimitz— Foreword, in United States Submarine Operations in World War II. (1949) by Theodore Roscoe, p. v
The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II, nothing that happened in the pacific was strange or unexpected.
chester w. nimitz— On his training for warfare in the Pacific at the Naval War college in 1922, as quoted at The American Experience (PBS)
It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness of the late afternoon of time.
jack kerouac— Jack Kerouac, in On the Road (1962), Ch. 9
A city on hills has it over flat-land places. . . . This gold and white acropolis rising wave on wave against the blue of the pacific sky was a stunning thing, a painted thing, like a picture of a mediaeval Italian city which can never have existed.
— John Steinbeck, in Travels With Charley (1962)
As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal.
— Ted Kulongoski, (January 13, 2003). "Speech by Governor Kulongoski: Inaugural Address", Oregon.gov, State of Oregon.
To the Legislative Assembly belongs the consideration of measures which may best tend to the development of the resources of the Territory. Oregon possesses within herself many of these, which with enterprise and industry will most surely render her a wealthy, powerful, and prosperous State. She has a fertile soil, and genial climate; she has [vast] forests and abundant fisheries, unlimited water power, pastures upon which even during winter, innumerable flocks and herds can subsist, with no other care than the mere herding; and prairies which could with only moderate labor, furnish the whole of our pacific Territories with bread.
— John P. Gaines (December 1852) "Governor John P. Gaines Legislative Message, 1852", Oregon State Archives, Oregon Secretary of State, Oregon Provisional and Territorial Records, 1852, Calendar No. 9375.
There is no choice but to force a decisive fleet encounter. If we set out from here to do that and we go to the bottom of the pacific in a double suicide, things will be peaceful on the high seas for some time.
— Admiral Yamamoto to the Japanese Naval General Staff before Operation Mi, the attack on Midway Island.[ ]
Once Japan is destroyed as an aggressive force, we know of no other challenging power that can appear in the pacific…. Japan is the one enemy, and the only enemy, of the peaceful peoples whose shores overlook the pacific Ocean.
— Jospeh C. Grew, address for United China Relief, Carnegie Hall, New York City (October 10, 1942); in The Department of State Bulletin (October 10, 1942), p. 798. Grew was the U.S. ambassador to Japan, 1932–1941.
