My name is Behan, Brendan Behan, after Saint Brendan, who got into one of our little Irish boats called a curragh one day in the sixth century and sailed across the Atlantic and found America, and when he'd found it, like a sensiblemanheturned around and sailed back and left it where it fuckin' well was.

-Behan, Brendan Francis
  Speech in NewYork.

That long frontier fromthe Atlantic tothe Pacificoceans, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, is an exampleto everycountryand a pattern for the future of the world.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Address at the Canada Club, London, 20  Apr.

Let it not be said of this Atlantic generation that we left ideals and visions to the past, nor purpose and determination to our adversaries.We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much to disdain the future now.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)
  Speech to the West German Parliament, Frankfurt, 25  Jun.

Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.

-Lardner, Dionysus
  Speech to the British  Association for the  Advancement of Science, London.

When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.

-McCarthy,Joseph R(aymond)
  'America the Beautiful', in Commentary, Sep.

The star that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top of heav'n doth hold, And the gilded car of day, Hisglowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream.

-Milton,John
  Comus,  A Mask, l.93^7.

The historic destiny of the Irish is being fulfilled on the other side of the Atlantic, where they have settled in their millions, bringing with them all their ancient grudges and the melancholy of the bogs, but also their hard, ancient wisdom. Theyalone of the newcomers are never fora moment taken in by themultifarious frauds of modernity. They have been changed from peasants and soldiers into townsmen. They have learned some of the superficial habits of 'good citizenship', but at heart they remain the same adroit and joyless race that broke the hearts of all who ever tried to help them.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  'TheAmerican Epoch in the Catholic Church'.