Petty Officer Academy

Famous quotes containing the words petty, officer and/or academy:

“The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.”
—Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)

“That’s all right, sir. A commanding officer doesn’t need brains, just a good, loud voice.”
—Cyril Hume, and Fred McLeod Wilcox. Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon)

“The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)