Famous quotes containing the words fast and/or battleships:
“Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)