London Fire Brigade/staffing

Famous quotes containing the words london, fire and/or brigade:

    “You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935)

    “[John] Brough’s majority is “glorious to behold.” It is worth a big victory in the field. It is decisive as to the disposition of the people to prosecute the war to the end. My regiment and brigade were both unanimous for Brough [the Union party candidate for governor of Ohio].”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)