Famous quotes containing the words army and/or officers:
“To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder.... The Army functions best when youre frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“I then went to the Parade. I saw the King. It was a glorious sight.... As a loadstone moves needles, or a storm bows the lofty oaks, did Frederick the Great make the Prussian officers submissive bend as he walked majestic in the midst of them.”
—James Boswell (17401795)