French Troops

Famous quotes containing the words french and/or troops:

“The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.”
—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)