Military Merit

Famous quotes containing the words military and/or merit:

“The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)

“Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)