Free Officers Movement can mean:
- Free Officers Movement (Egypt) in Egypt in the 1950s
- Free Officers and Civilians Movement in Iraq in the 1990s
- the Free Officers Movement in Syria in 2011, which merged into the Free Syrian Army
- Arab Socialist Union (Libya), formally the Free Officers Movement in Libya
Famous quotes containing the words free, officers and/or movement:
“We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“You watched and you saw what happened and in the accumulation of episodes you saw the pattern: Daddy ruled the roost, called the shots, made the money, made the decisions, so you signed up on his side, and fifteen years later when the women’s movement came along with its incendiary manifestos telling you to avoid marriage and motherhood, it was as if somebody put a match to a pile of dry kindling.”
—Anne Taylor Fleming (20th century)