Free French Navy

Famous quotes containing the words free, french and/or navy:

    Ignominy in ransom and free pardon
    Are of two houses; lawful mercy
    Is nothing kin to foul redemption.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    If you should put a knife into a French girl’s learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee ...
    M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

    People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective.
    William Howard Taft (1857–1930)