Famous quotes containing the words soldier and/or string:
“I have no doubt that soldiers well drilled are, as a class, peculiarly destitute of originality and independence.... It is impossible to give the soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.”
—Jeffrey Tate (b. 1943)