Famous quotes containing the words joint, base and/or garrison:
“What’s a joint of mutton or two in a whole Lent?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I am sure my bones would not rest in an English grave, or my clay mix with the earth of that country. I believe the thought would drive me mad on my death-bed could I suppose that any of my friends would be base enough to convey my carcass back to her soil. I would not even feed her worms if I could help it.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Our country is the world—our countrymen are all mankind.”
—William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879)