Light Horse Brigade

Famous quotes containing the words light, horse and/or brigade:

“And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt,
Left here without the light I loved so much,
In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.”
—Petrarch (1304–1374)

“People do not think themselves ugly, just as no horse thinks its face is long.”
—Chinese proverb.

“[John] Brough’s majority is “glorious to behold.” It is worth a big victory in the field. It is decisive as to the disposition of the people to prosecute the war to the end. My regiment and brigade were both unanimous for Brough [the Union party candidate for governor of Ohio].”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)