Fletcher Class Destroyers

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

    “Joys as winged dreams fly fast,
    Why should sadness longer last?
    Grief is but a wound to woe;
    Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.”
    —John Fletcher (1579–1625)

    “Mankind divides itself into two classes,—benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast, the first a handful.”
    —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)