Famous quotes containing the words officer and/or buckle:
“A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“He cannot buckle his distempered cause
Within the belt of rule.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)