Command Plant Troops

Famous quotes containing the words command, plant and/or troops:

“‘Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

“Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed,—a, to me, equally mysterious origin for it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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