Famous quotes containing the words american and/or troops:
“It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
“A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.”
—Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964)