Life Guards

Life Guards may refer to several military regiments:

  • Life Guards (British Army)
  • Life Guards (Swedish Army)
  • Russian Imperial Guard
  • Garde du Corps (France), during the Ancien RĂ©gime
  • Commander-in-Chief's Guard of the Continental Army, commonly referred to as Washington's Life Guards

Famous quotes containing the words life and/or guards:

    Wisdom is not just knowing fundamental truths, if these are unconnected with the guidance of life or with a perspective on its meaning. If the deep truths physicists describe about the origin and functioning of the universe have little practical import and do not change our picture of the meaning of the universe and our place within it, then knowing them would not count as wisdom.
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    The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them. The right punishment of one out of tune, is to make him play in tune; the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay, is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls, which will make men willing to give them every thing which they need.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)