Military Merit Order

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

    “Nothing changes my twenty-six years in the military. I continue to love it and everything it stands for and everything I was able to accomplish in it. To put up a wall against the military because of one regulation would be doing the same thing that the regulation does in terms of negating people.”
    —Margarethe Cammermeyer (b. 1942)

    “Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.”
    —Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)