Borchardt class:
"For a Righteous man shall fall and rise seven times and rise again, but the wicked shall fall by calamity."
--Proverbs 24:16
Swift class:
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
-- Lily Tomlin
Shrike class:
"Night shall be my friend. Darkness my shield."
--Werdan the Heretic (translated from the original)
Questor class:
"I have more than enough answers. What I seek is questions."
-- Taekieh, Vulcan Philosopher
Impudent class:
"Of course you realize - THIS means WAR!"
-- Bugs Bunny
Shenandoah class:
"It is easier to stay out than to get out."
-- Mark Twain
Foundry class:
"If We Can't Fix It, It Ain't Broke"
-- Slogan of late 20th century Electronic Warfare Technicians
Assegai class:
"A boy carrying a cat by the tail is learning something he can learn no other way"
--Mark Twain
Mallard class:
"Never shift a paradigm without a spotter"
-- Cyrano Jones
Merrimac-Virginia class:
"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it."
-- Robert E. Lee
Royal Nonesuch:
"Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions."
-- Stephen Leacock
Perseus class:
"We choose to do this not because it is easy, but because it is hard."
-- Robert F. Kennedy
Ptolemy class:
"The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate."
-- O. Henry
S.S. Valiant:
"I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto."
-- Dorothy
Mechano class:
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
--Patrick Henry, speech (1775)
Dragon class:
"Lions and Tigers and Bears! Oh, My!"
-- Dorothy, et. al.
Jaguar class:
"Even old New York
was once New Amsterdam.
Why they changed it I can't say
(Maybe they liked it better that way!)"
-- They Might Be Giants
Los Angeles class:
"Were we to give up half our territory rather than engage in a just war to preserve it, we should not keep the other half long."
--Thomas Jefferson
Longbow class:
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it."
-- THOMAS JEFFERSON
Lewis class:
"The Future . . . something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."
-- C.S. LEWIS
Growler class:
"Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes."
-- Antisthenes
Heston class:
"A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom."
-- Imamu Amiri Baraka
Michelson class:
"Who sees farthest, sees best."
-- Proverb
Gungnir class:
"To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
-- GEORGE WASHINGTON
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