Famous quotes containing the words large and/or armies:
“Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)