Quotes by Army Officers

When is there a boy, even in these materialistic times, to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal? Maybe it is the primitive instinct, anyway it is there. With that key a great door may be unlocked, if it is only to admit fresh air and sunshine into lives that were otherwise grey.The heroes of the wild, the frontiersmen and explorers, the rovers of the seas, the airmen of the clouds, are pied pipers to the boys. Where they lead the boys will follow and these will dance to their tune when it sings the song of manliness and pluck, of adventure and high endeavors of efficiency and skill, of cheerful sacrifice of self for others. There's meat in this for the boy. There's soul in it.

Baden-Powell Robert Baden-Powell

I am just going outside and may be some time." Reportedly the last words of Lawrence Oates according to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who commanded the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole 1911/12.

Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Robert Baden-Powell

A nation that forgets its past has no future

Sir Winston Churchill

(When told that he is a drunk) My dear, you are ugly; but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Sir Winston Churchill