Fletcher Class Destroyers

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

    “Hear, ye ladies that despise,
    What the mighty Love has done;
    Fear examples, and be wise:”
    —John Fletcher (1579–1625)

    “Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.”
    —Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904)

    “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)