French Military Victories

Famous quotes containing the words french, military and/or victories:

    “When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That’s progress?”
    —Marilyn French (b. 1929)

    “The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.”
    —Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)

    ““... Knowledge he shall unwind
    Through victories of the mind,
    Till, clambering at the cradle-side,
    He dreams himself his mother’s pride,
    All knowledge lost in trance
    Of sweeter ignorance.””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)