Military Merit Order

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

    “I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.”
    —Václav Havel (b. 1936)

    “One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.”
    —Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

    “It is well within the order of things
    That man should listen when his mate sings;
    But the true male never yet walked
    Who liked to listen when his mate talked.”
    —Anna Wickham (1884–1947)