Military Merit Cross is the name for a military decoration in various states, including:
- Military Merit Cross (Austria–Hungary) (Militärverdienstkreuz) (in three classes)
- Military Merit Cross (Czechoslovakia)
- Military Merit Cross (Peru) (in five classes)
- German States:
- Military Merit Cross (Prussia) (Militär-Verdienstkreuz), also called the Golden Military Merit Cross (Goldenes Militär-Verdienstkreuz) to distinguish it from the Military Decoration 1st Class, an identical cross but in silver.
- Military Merit Cross (Bavaria) (Militär-Verdienstkreuz) (in three classes)
- Military Merit Cross (Mecklenburg-Schwerin) (Militärverdienstkreuz) (in two classes)
- Military Merit Cross (Hesse), 1870–71 (Militär-Verdienst-Kreuz 1870/71)
- Military Merit Cross (Waldeck) (Militär-Verdienstkreuz)
Famous quotes containing the words military, merit and/or cross:
“There was somewhat military in his nature, not to be subdued, always manly and able, but rarely tender, as if he did not feel himself except in opposition. He wanted a fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, I may say required a little sense of victory, a roll of the drum, to call his powers into full exercise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“Pilate with his question “What is truth?” is gladly trotted out these days as an advocate of Christ, so as to arouse the suspicion that everything known and knowable is an illusion and to erect the cross upon that gruesome background of the impossibility of knowledge.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)