Command Plant Troops

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

“I, who should command a regiment,
Do amble amiably here, O God,
One of the neat ones in your awkward squad.”
—Norman Cameron (b. 1905)

“I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults over the moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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