Active Duty Fleet

Famous quotes containing the words active, duty and/or fleet:

“Women have acquired equal place to man in society, but the double standard has really never been relinquished; certainly not by men. Modern man’s fear of passivity or of the active woman proves to be as eternal as modern woman’s struggle to come to terms with her femininity.”
—Peter Blos (20th century)

“The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)

“They ... fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)