Famous quotes containing the words free, state and/or troops:
“We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition, as a state of warfare; and his probation in it, precisely that of any other man militant upon earth,—both depending alike, not half so much upon the degrees of his WIT—as his RESISTANCE.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.”
—Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964)