Free French Naval

Famous quotes containing the words free, french and/or naval:

    “In some unused lagoon, some nameless bay,
    On sluggish, lonesome waters, anchor’d near the shore,
    An old, dismasted, gray and batter’d ship, disabled, done,
    After free voyages to all the seas of earth, haul’d up at last and
    hawser’d tight,
    Lies rusting, mouldering.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That’s progress?”
    —Marilyn French (b. 1929)

    “Yesterday, December 7, 1941Ma date that will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)