Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
2044
AUTHOR:
Sir Walter Raleigh (1554?1618)
QUOTATION:
For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.
ATTRIBUTION:
SIR WALTER RALEIGH, A Discourse of the Invention of Ships, Anchors, Compass, &c., The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., vol. 8, p. 325 (1829, reprinted 1965).