Famous quotes containing the words free, state and/or soldiers:
“A free spirit must be able to surmount anxiety time after time.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds; the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is easier to get a thousand soldiers than to find one good general.”
—Chinese proverb.