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)

“I shall not be forward to think him mistaken in his method who quickest succeeds to liberate the slave. I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Unpaid work never commands respect ...”
—Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856–1940)