Embarked Troops

Famous quotes containing the words embarked and/or troops:

“Gradually the village murmur subsided, and we seemed to be embarked on the placid current of our dreams, floating from past to future as silently as one awakes to fresh morning or evening thoughts.”
—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)