Famous quotes containing the words comrade, supreme and/or commander:
“[Rutherford B. Hayes] was a patriotic citizen, a lover of the flag and of our free institutions, an industrious and conscientious civil officer, a soldier of dauntless courage, a loyal comrade and friend, a sympathetic and helpful neighbor, and the honored head of a happy Christian home. He has steadily grown in the public esteem, and the impartial historian will not fail to recognize the conscientiousness, the manliness, and the courage that so strongly characterized his whole public career.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves ...”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“A commander in the field must sometimes go against the king’s orders.”
—Chinese proverb.