French Outposts

Famous quotes containing the words french and/or outposts:

    When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That’s progress?
    —Marilyn French (b. 1929)

    So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stark. They were all the same. Men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode and whatever they fought for, that place became the United States.
    Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)