Famous quotes containing the words earth, defense and/or fleet:
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The cliché organizes life; it expropriates peoples identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)
“A city on th inconstant billows dancing;
For so appears this fleet majestical.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)