Army General Order

Famous quotes containing the words army, general and/or order:

    “The army is the true nobility of our country.”
    —Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)

    “An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.”
    —Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

    “Perchance not he but Nature ailed,
    The world and not the infant failed.
    It was not ripe yet to sustain
    A genius of so fine a strain,
    Who gazed upon the sun and moon
    As if he came unto his own,
    And, pregnant with his grander thought,
    Brought the old order into doubt.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)