Reserve Forces

Famous quotes containing the words reserve and/or forces:

    “I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The next thing his Lordship does, after clearing of the coast, is the dividing of his forces, as he calls them, into two squadrons, one of places of Scriptures, the other of reasons....
    All that I have to say touching this, is that I observe a great part of those his forces do look and march another way, and some of them fight amongst themselves.”
    —Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)