Military Merit Order

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

    In all sincerity, we offer to the loved ones of all innocent victims over the past 25 years, abject and true remorse. No words of ours will compensate for the intolerable suffering they have undergone during the conflict.
    —Combined Loyalist Military Command. New York Times, p. A12 (October 14, l994)

    After many centuries, those crescents yet unwaning shine, and count a devotee for every worshiper of yonder crosses. Truth and Merit have other symbols than success.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
    Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934)