Heavy Weapons Troop

Famous quotes containing the words heavy, weapons and/or troop:

    “Alonzo. What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes
    Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts. I find
    They are inclined to do so.
    Sebastian. Please you, sir,
    Do not omit the heavy offer of it.
    It seldom visits sorrow; when it doth,
    It is a comforter.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.”
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–91)

    “Old soldiers, Miss Dandridge. Someday you’ll learn how they hate to give up. Captain of a troop one day, every man’s face turned toward ya. Lieutenants jump when I growl. Now tomorrow, I’ll be glad if the blacksmith asks me to shoe a horse.”
    —Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)