Command Entire Period

Famous quotes containing the words command, entire and/or period:

    “I, who should command a regiment,
    Do amble amiably here, O God,
    One of the neat ones in your awkward squad.”
    —Norman Cameron (b. 1905)

    “The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the same doctrine for a thousand years without finding in the entire history of Rome anything but flat contradiction.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)