Army Troops

Famous quotes containing the words army and/or troops:

“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 (1857–1930)

“A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.”
—Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964)