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)

    “The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.”
    —A.J. (Arthur James)

    “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)