Winfield Scott Quotes

You are very fortunate to be assigned to duty at Fortress Monroe on Chesapeake Bay; it is just the season for soft shelled crabs, and hog fish have just come in, and they are the most delicious panfish you ever ate.

Winfield Scott

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• Fishes
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• According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • History
  • Army
  • Soviet

• The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Law
  • Me
  • Joy

• I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Live
  • True
  • Think

• How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

  

  Barbara Pym
  • Love
  • Should
  • Try

• My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Great
  • American
  • Revolution

• My older brother, who was in the Army, now owns his own building company. My half-sister was a nurse and is now a psychotherapist.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Brother
  • Sister
  • Army

• My dad is from the army, and so we studied all over. I had done an Onida campaign at the age of two, as my mom always had this inclination for me to model, but my dad was clear that I could model only when I turned 18, so immediately after school, I started modelling.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • School
  • Done
  • Age

• When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.

  

  Jack Herer
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Constitution

• At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Real
  • Army
  • Injustice

• The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Peace
  • Running
  • Humanity

• Gandhi, that great apostle of non-violence, and Aung San, the founder of a national army, were very different personalities, but as there is an inevitable sameness about the challenges of authoritarian rule anywhere at any time, so there is a similarity in the intrinsic qualities of those who rise up to meet the challenge.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I used to wear Clark Kent glasses, ever since I was in college. I used to have those Army-issue glasses, and they used to be those black glasses Clark Kent used to wear. And I wore those for years.

  

  Mark Valley
  • Black
  • College
  • Army

• Sleep is the Swiss army knife of health. When sleep is deficient, there is sickness and disease. And when sleep is abundant, there is vitality and health.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Health
  • Sleep
  • Army

• I learned how to make an endoscope using a Swiss Army Knife, a cell phone camera, cell phone, and chewing gum.

  

  Lucas Till
  • Army

• For years, the feminists thought of me as an army sergeant. I was too macho for them.

  

  Lina Wertmuller
  • Army

• It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.

  

  Adnan Pachachi
  • Question
  • Army

• It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am.

  

  Burt Bacharach
  • Kids
  • Boy
  • Army

• The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and actually fulfill God's will, and not let God's word be desecrated. For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Man
  • Duty
  • Sacred

• Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Discipline
  • Army
  • Order

• It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken.

  

  Edgerrin James
  • Live
  • Tiger
  • Chicken

• You are very fortunate to be assigned to duty at Fortress Monroe on Chesapeake Bay; it is just the season for soft shelled crabs, and hog fish have just come in, and they are the most delicious panfish you ever ate.

  

  Winfield Scott
  • Army
  • Duty
  • Fishes