#regiment

What Manner Of Men Are These That Wear The Maroon Beret? They are firstly all volunteers and are toughened by physical training. As a result they have infectious optimism and that offensive eagerness which comes from well-being. They have 'jumped' from the air and by doing so have conquered fear. Their duty lies in the van of the battle. They are proud of this honour. They have the highest standards in all things whether it be skill in battle or smartness in the execution of all peace time duties. They are in fact - men apart - every man an emperor. Of all the factors, which make for success in battle, the spirit of the warrior is the most decisive. That spirit will be found in full measure in the men who wear the maroon beret ↗

— Bernard Montgomery

#men

I joined the Army in 1965 and served with the 11th Hussars, which I loved. The regiment was so relaxed - a salute was more like a friendly wave. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#friendly #i #joined #like #loved

I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#crowd #easy #going #good-humoured #i

Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out. ↗

— David Bailey

#beaten #being #choice #eight #five

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#breasts #doth #elements #four #framed

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day? ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#gone #kings #perfect #regiment #shadows

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#education #learning #regimentation #education

I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers. ↗

— George Armstrong Custer

#dangers #enemy #humiliation #i #march

In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#allow #budget #did #duty #falklands

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#christianity #deep #deep end #end #far