Active Military Service

Famous quotes containing the words active, military and/or service:

    “How often must I repeat, that I know or am conscious of my own being; and that I myself am not my ideas, but somewhat else, a thinking, active principle that perceives, knows, wills, and operates about ideas?”
    —George Berkeley (1685–1753)

    “The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.”
    —Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)

    “Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.”
    —Elizabeth I (1533–1603)