Swift Boat

Swift Boat may refer to:

  • a Patrol Craft Fast
  • Swift Vets and POWs for Truth, originally named Swift Boat Veterans For Truth
  • Swiftboating, political jargon for a particular form of character assassination as a smear tactic

Famous quotes containing the words swift and/or boat:

    “In all the wide gamut of human experience, nothing plays so important a part as faith.... Faith that is as broad as the heavens and as wide as the earth. Faith that comprehends in its vast sympathies everything human as well as divine, and carries one with the swift sure wings of the angels directly to his goal.”
    —Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)

    “My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous with science. I see philosophy and science as in the same boat—a boat which, to revert to Neurath’s figure as I so often do, we can rebuild only at sea while staying afloat in it. There is no external vantage point, no first philosophy.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)