Famous quotes containing the words light, horse and/or troops:
“I think continually of those who were truly great.
Who, from the womb, remembered the souls history
Through corridors of light where the hours are suns,
Endless and singing.”
—Stephen Spender (19091995)
“By the mud-sill theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should beall the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly.... Free labor insists on universal education.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“Therefore the skilful leader subdues the enemys troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.”
—Sun Tzu (6th5th century B.C.)