Altered Significantly Due

Famous quotes containing the words altered and/or due:

“We got our new rifled muskets this morning. They are mostly old muskets, many of them used, altered from flint-lock to percussion ... but the power of the gun was fully as great as represented. The ball at one-fourth mile passed through the largest rails; at one-half mile almost the same.... I think it an excellent arm.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“Instruct me then; I should not speak without due thought.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)