Fletcher Class Destroyers

Famous quotes containing the words fletcher, class and/or destroyers:

    Little deeds of kindness,
    Little words of love,
    Make our earth an Eden,
    Like the heaven above.
    —Julia A. Fletcher Carney (1823–1908)

    People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.
    Brian Friel (b. 1929)

    Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)