Border Troops

Famous quotes containing the words border and/or troops:

“For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world into which I make occasional and transient forays only, and my patriotism and allegiance to the state into whose territories I seem to retreat are those of a moss-trooper.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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