Minnesota Light Artillery

Famous quotes containing the words light and/or artillery:

    A lover may bestride the gossamers
    That idles in the wanton summer air,
    And yet not fall; so light is vanity.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentiment in mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)