Admiral Sir John

Famous quotes containing the words admiral, sir and/or john:

“In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

“Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army.”
—Richard, Sir Hull (b. 1907)

“This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.”
—Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–1890)