Erich Raeder quotes
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“All wars will be settled by sea power.”
-- Erich RaederSource : "The Atlantic System: The Story of Anglo-American Control of the Seas". Book by Forrest Davis, p. 221, 1941.
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“... the basic principles of the military services are unchangeable. Courage and candor, obedience and comradeship, love of fatherland and loyalty to the State: these are ever the distinguishing characteristics of the soldier and sailor. Building character through intelligent training and education is always the first and greatest goal.”
-- Erich RaederSource : Erich Raeder (1960). “My Life”
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“Raeder, the political admiral, stealthily built up the German Navy in defiance of the Versailles Treaty, and then put it to use in a series of aggressions which he had taken a leading part in planning.”
-- Erich Raeder
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Source : A.J.P. Taylor (1996). “Origin Of The Second World War”, p.18, Simon and Schuster
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“Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.”
Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.125, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Source : The Swimmer', stanza 5, collected in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870).
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Source : Adelaide Crapsey, “Adventure”
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“I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.”
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