Military Merit Order

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

    ““My ancestors were all famous for military genius.”
    My Lady smiled graciously. “It often runs in families,” she remarked: “just as a love for pastry does.””
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “Be thou the first true merit to befriend;
    His praise is lost who stays till all commend.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “You cannot have one well-bred man without a whole society of such. They keep each other up to any high point. Especially women;Mit requires a great many cultivated women,—saloons of bright, elegant, reading women, accustomed to ease and refinement, to spectacles, pictures, sculpture, poetry, and to elegant society, in order that you have one Madame de Staël.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)