Famous quotes containing the words east, essex, regiment, foot and/or war:
“The East is the hearthside of America. Like any home, therefore, it has the defects of its virtues. Because it is a long-lived-in house, it bursts its seams, is inconvenient, needs constant refurbishing. And some of the family resources have been spent. To attain the privacy that grown-up people find so desirable, Easterners live a harder life than people elsewhere. Today it is we and not the frontiersman who must be rugged to survive.”
—Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978)
“The unknown always seems unbelievable, Lucas.”
—Harry Essex (b. 1910)
“What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“An inch of time is worth more than a foot of jade.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)