Famous quotes containing the words army and/or adopted:
“An army is maintained for a thousand days all to be used on one morning.”
—Chinese proverb.
“I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States.”
—George III (1738–1820)