Rank Warrant Officer

Famous quotes containing the words rank, warrant and/or officer:

“Pukka sahib or rank outsider—gentleman or bounder—and it’s accent, accent, all the way.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)

“Sometimes, when I compare myself with other men, it seems as if I were more favored by the gods than they, beyond any deserts that I am conscious of; as if I had a warrant and surety at their hands which my fellows have not, and were especially guided and guarded. I do not flatter myself, but if it be possible they flatter me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Any officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer for a seat in Congress ought to be scalped.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)