Fletcher Class Destroyers

Famous quotes containing the words fletcher, class and/or destroyers:

    “Little deeds of kindness,
    Little words of love,
    Make our earth an Eden,
    Like the heaven above.”
    —Julia A. Fletcher Carney (1823–1908)

    “But the strong and healthy yeoman and husbands of the land, the self-sustaining class of inventive and industrious men, fear no competition or superiority. Come what will, their faculty cannot be spared.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)