Captain Wilson

Famous quotes containing the words captain and/or wilson:

    “I do not believe in erecting statues to those who still live in our hearts, whose bones have not yet crumbled in the earth around us, but I would rather see the statue of Captain Brown in the Massachusetts State-House yard than that of any other man whom I know. I rejoice that I live in this age, that I am his contemporary.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “It has become a people’s war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune, are involved in its sweeping processes of change and settlement.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)