Famous quotes containing the words volunteer, division, shaky and/or beginning:
“We should have an army so organized and so officered as to be capable in time of emergency, in cooperation with the National Militia, and under the provision of a proper national volunteer law, rapidly to expand into a force sufficient to resist all probable invasion from abroad and to furnish a respectable expeditionary force if necessary in the maintenance of our traditional American policy which bears the name of President Monroe.”
—William Howard Taft (18571930)
“O, if you raise this house against this house
It will the woefullest division prove
That ever fell upon this cursed earth.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“The first full-fledged generation of women in the professions did not talk about their overbooked agenda or the toll it took on them and their families. They knew that their position in the office was shaky at best. . . . If they suffered self-doubt or frustration . . . they blamed themselveseither for expecting too much or for doing too little.”
—Deborah J. Swiss (20th century)
“The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not Am I really that oppressed? but Am I really that boring?”
—Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)