Military Merit Cross is the name for a military decoration in various states, including:
- Military Merit Cross (Austria–Hungary) (Militärverdienstkreuz) (in three classes)
- Military Merit Cross (Czechoslovakia)
- Military Merit Cross (Peru) (in five classes)
- German States:
- Military Merit Cross (Prussia) (Militär-Verdienstkreuz), also called the Golden Military Merit Cross (Goldenes Militär-Verdienstkreuz) to distinguish it from the Military Decoration 1st Class, an identical cross but in silver.
- Military Merit Cross (Bavaria) (Militär-Verdienstkreuz) (in three classes)
- Military Merit Cross (Mecklenburg-Schwerin) (Militärverdienstkreuz) (in two classes)
- Military Merit Cross (Hesse), 1870–71 (Militär-Verdienst-Kreuz 1870/71)
- Military Merit Cross (Waldeck) (Militär-Verdienstkreuz)
Famous quotes containing the words military, merit and/or cross:
“Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No—we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
“Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!
Clouds of the west—sun there half an hour
high—I see you also face to face.
Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious you are to me!
On the ferry-boats the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning
home, are more curious to me than you suppose,
And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)