Active Duty Fleet

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

“Few, if any, creatures are equally active all night.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

“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)