Famous quotes containing the words army, air and/or base:
“The army is the true nobility of our country.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)
“Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture on the wall, or as if the author expected that the dead would be his readers, and wished to detail to them their own experience.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The base emotions Plato banned
have left a radio-active and not radiant land.”
—Libby Houston (b. 1941)