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:

    In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the end of life but the final saturation with absence.
    Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934)

    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)