Warrant Officer Class

Famous quotes containing the words warrant, officer and/or class:

    “I’ll sing you a new ballad, and I’ll warrant it first-rate,
    Of the days of that old gentleman who had that old estate;
    When they spent the public money at a bountiful old rate
    On ev’ry mistress, pimp, and scamp, at ev’ry noble gate,
    In the fine old English Tory times;”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1890)

    “Any officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer for a seat in Congress ought to be scalped.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.”
    —Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)