He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
There is no rank in sacrifice.
I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out.
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.
Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank.
Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.
Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.