M22 Locust/operational History/world War II

Famous quotes containing the words locust, history, world and/or war:

    Who knows what sort of seventeen-year locust will next come out of the ground?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
    Karl Marx (1818–1883)

    Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay,
    And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away:
    ‘Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!’
    Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)