Famous quotes containing the words commander and/or adams:
“A commander in the field must sometimes go against the king’s orders.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Positively I sit here, and look at Europe sink, first one deck disappearing, then another, and the whole ship slowly plunging bow-down into the abyss; until the nightmare gets to be howling. The Roman Empire was a trifle to it.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)