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)

    “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)