#officer

I give no more paroles to British officers. ↗

— Christopher Gadsden

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In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

#completely #definitely #i #i think #integrated

It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#countries #early #enactment #events #felony

Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions. ↗

— Antonio Villaraigosa

#accountable #actions #clear #criminal #law

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#execute #laws #made #officers #people

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy. ↗

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

#discipline #enemy #fear #making #more

Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#army #build #helped #officers #own

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?" ↗

— Grace Hopper

#i #immigration #looked #me #officer

Hardness," I was learning, was the supreme virtue among recon Marines. The greatest compliment one could pay to another was to say he was hard. Hardness wasn't toughness, nor was it courage, although both were part of it. Hardness was the ability to face an overwhelming situation with aplomb, smile calmly at it, and then triumph through sheer professional pride. ↗

— Nathaniel Fick

#marines #officer #courage

The Petriana’s tribune dismounted a dozen paces short of the gate and stalked up to the palisade wall with a grim smile, squinting up at Scaurus and his officers and then glancing back at the men building the pyre on the plain below the fortress. He called up to them, shielding his eyes with a raised hand. ‘Well now, colleague, I see you’ve accomplished your orders with the usual efficiency. Perhaps you ought to come down here and join me, though. I’ve something to tell you that will give you some pause for thought.’ Scaurus climbed down from the wall after instructing Julius to keep the men inside the Dinpaladyr at their tasks. ‘You’d better come with me, Centurion Corvus, I suspect I’m going to need someone to take notes of whatever it is my brother tribune has to tell me. I may well be too busy banging my head on the palisade in frustration. ↗

— Anthony Riches

#humour #officers #soldiers #business