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)

    “History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.”
    —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)