Command Plant Troops

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

    “I at least have so much to do in unravelling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “Here come the line-gang pioneering by.
    They throw a forest down less cut than broken.
    They plant dead trees for living, and the dead
    They string together with a living thread.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

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