Allied Commander South

Famous quotes containing the words allied, commander and/or south:

“I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A commander in the field must sometimes go against the king’s orders.”
—Chinese proverb.

“These South savannahs may yet prove battle-fields.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)