State Troops

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or troops:

“Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.”
—Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964)