Famous quotes containing the words british, imperial and/or troops:
“Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“The imperial multiplicatornothing can nonplus:
My mother Nature is the origin of it all.”
—George Barker (b. 1913)
“A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.”
—Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964)