Numerically Superior Enemy

Famous quotes containing the words numerically, superior and/or enemy:

    “... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one’s mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    “The State never intentionally confronts a man’s sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “With drums and guns, and guns and drums
    The enemy nearly slew ye,
    My darling dear, you look so queer,
    Och, Johnny, I hardly knew ye!”
    —Unknown. Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye (l. Chorus.)