Famous quotes containing the words army, general and/or order:
“Methinks it would be some advantage to philosophy if men were named merely in the gross, as they are known. It would be necessary only to know the genus and perhaps the race or variety, to know the individual. We are not prepared to believe that every private soldier in a Roman army had a name of his own,because we have not supposed that he had a character of his own.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teachesenduring loneliness.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“They are the lovers of law and order who observe the law when the government breaks it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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