USS Washington Bb-56/1941%e2%80%931942 - Atlantic Service

Famous quotes containing the words washington, atlantic and/or service:

    There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
    —George Washington (1732–1799)

    The Atlantic Ocean was something then.
    John Guare (b. 1938)

    The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self- service populace, and all our specious comforts—the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria—are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
    Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)