Famous quotes containing the words mount, captain and/or commands:
“But mount to paradise
By the stairway of surprise.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“If something isn’t saved, then what’s it all for?”
—Sydney Pollack. Captain Beckman (Patrick O’Neal)
“It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is less need of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.”
—Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689–1755)
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