Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or military:
“I hope you will not be washed away by the Irish sea.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)