Captain Bligh

Famous quotes containing the words captain bligh and/or captain:

“Captain Bligh: Mr. Christian, I give you your last chance to return to duty.
Fletcher Christian: I’ll take my chance against the law. You’ll take yours against the sea.”
—Talbot Jennings (1896–1985)

“I shall not be forward to think him mistaken in his method who quickest succeeds to liberate the slave. I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)