Mercenary Troops

Famous quotes containing the words mercenary and/or troops:

“These, in the day when heaven was falling,
The hour when earth’s foundations fled,
Followed their mercenary calling
And took their wages and are dead.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)

“A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.”
—Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964)