Quotes of Legion - somelinesforyou

“ If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army. ”

- Casey Stengel

“ The sergeant is the Army. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought. ”

- Saddam Hussein

“ National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane. ”

- J. F. C. Fuller

“ It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. ”

- Andre Gide

“ The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction. ”

- Mark Twain

“ My name is Legion. ”

- Bible

“ He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses! ”

- Juvenal

“ We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth — all these belong to the old period… ”

- William Makepeace Thackeray
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