Military Merit Order

Famous quotes containing the words military, merit and/or order:

    “Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,
    Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.”
    —Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979)

    “Merit at Courts, without favour, will do little or nothing; favour, without merit, will do a good deal; but favour and merit together will do everything.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “‘The old order changeth, yielding place to new
    And God fulfils Himself in many ways,
    Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)