Famous quotes containing the words north and/or troops:
“The North will at least preserve your flesh for you; Northerners are pale for good and all. There’s very little difference between a dead Swede and a young man who’s had a bad night. But the Colonial is full of maggots the day after he gets off the boat.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)
“A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.”
—Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964)