Life Guards

Life Guards may refer to several military regiments:

  • Life Guards (British Army)
  • Life Guards (Swedish Army)
  • Russian Imperial Guard
  • Garde du Corps (France), during the Ancien Régime
  • Commander-in-Chief's Guard of the Continental Army, commonly referred to as Washington's Life Guards

Famous quotes containing the words life and/or guards:

    “We realize that we are laggards from the past century, still living in what Marx kindly calls ‘the idiocy of rural life,’ and we know that our rural life is like that of the past, not like that of much of the present.”
    —For the State of Vermont, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)