Active Duty Fleet

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

    “Why indeed must “God” be a noun? Why not a verb—the most active and dynamic of all.”
    —Mary Daly (b. 1928)

    “If there is ANY THING which it is the duty of the WHOLE PEOPLE to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “On the middle of that quiet floor
    sits a fleet of small black ships,
    square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
    their spars like burned matchsticks.”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)