From: "John Hurst", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here's a handful of quotes from "Serve To Lead (An Anthology)", which is
compiled by the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
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"The British infantry is the finest in the world. Fortunately there are not
many of them." - Marshal Thomas Bugeaud.
"Ten good soldier wisely led
Will beat a hundred without a head"
Euripides
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"When a soldier is at war, his mind must be at peace"
Lord Moran
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"I shall add a very short story of the wreck of the Warren Hastings, which
was carrying four companies of the King's Royal Rifle Corps and as many of
the York and Lancaster Regiment, on the island of Reunion in 1897. When the
ship struck, sentries of the Rifles were at once posted at various points on
the lower deck, to guard the access to the spirit room and suchlike; and
there they remained while boats were lowered to take the Battalion ashore.
The water rose steadily upon them inch by inch, and had reached their
chests, when at last an officer came to summon them also, last of all, to
take their place in the boats. He collected them all, as he thought, but in
the noise and darkness he missed one man and left him behind. The man saw
his comrades disappear, and the officer about to join them, and not till
then did he ask, without quitting his post, 'Beg pardon, sir, may I come
too?' If ever you hear any man speak lightly of military discipline, tell
him that story, for that Rifleman is worthy to be placed alongside the Roman
sentry at Pompeii".
Sir John Fortescue, Military History Lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge
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"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...because it is
the quality which guarantees all others".
Winston Churchill
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"Dogs, would you live forever"?
Frederick the Great (to soldiers reluctant to advance)
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If you want anymore then give us a shout
Iain
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