Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.
Destroyers were the first to herald our entrance into the war.
Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.
Leave everyone you meet better than you found them. Become an encourager of potential versus a destroyer of confidence.
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.
Anger is the ultimate destroyer of your own peace of mind
President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.
We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.
Referring to the riots in the Watts section of Los Angeles:
Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses.
Every movement that burns hot enough will attract opportunists, zealots, and eventually, destroyers. Even the most righteous cause can be hollowed out from within.
Paranoia, the destroyer.
Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence.
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.
I am Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds.
I was a radioman first class in the Navy. I put in seven years. I was around a lot of admirals; I served on destroyers, cruisers, and a flat top for a little while.
The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious minds.
Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.
The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle.
Where's Marcus, Destroyer of Lives, going to meet us?