If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the ve...ssel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nitrates and phosphates for ammunition. The seeds of war. They're loading a full cargo of death. And when that ship takes it home,... the world will die a little more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now launch the small ship, now as the body dies and life departs, launch out, the fragile soul... in the fragile ship of courage, the ark of faith with its store of food and little cooking pans and change of clothes,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great!... Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »