Famous quotes containing the words national, army and/or soldiers:
“The signs look better. The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea. Thanks to the great North-West for it. Nor yet wholly to them.... The job was a great national one.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“Thats what an army isa mob; they dont fight with courage thats born in them, but with courage thats borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.”
—Franz Grillparzer (17911872)