Famous quotes containing the words chief, constable and/or sir:
“To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.”
—Humphrey, Sir Gilbert (c.1537–1583)