Commands Service Retained

Famous quotes containing the words commands, service and/or retained:

    “How often we read that the enemy occupied a position which commanded the old, and so the fort was evacuated! Have not the school-house and the printing-press occupied a position which commands such a fort as this?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “He degraded himself by the vice of drinking, which, together with a great stock of Greek and Latin, he brought away with him from Oxford and retained and practised ever afterwards.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)