Mount Captain Commands

Famous quotes containing the words mount, captain and/or commands:

    “Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.”
    —Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)

    “John Gilpin was a citizen
    Of credit and renown,
    A train-band captain eke was he
    Of famous London town.”
    —William Cowper (1731–1800)

    “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)