Military Merit Order

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

    “[I]t is a civil Cowardice to be backward in asserting what you ought to expect, as it is a military Fear to be slow in attacking when it is your Duty.”
    —Richard Steele (1672–1729)

    “Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.”
    —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

    “The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.”
    —Baruch (Benedict)