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. . . ARISTOCRACY see "PEOPLE" for related links Aristocracy has three successive ages,--the age of superiorities, the age of privileges, and the age of vanities; having passed out of the first, it degenerates in the second, and dies away in the third. --François-René de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) French writer and diplomat - The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the upper classes Have still the upper hand. --Noël Coward (1899-1973) English playwright, actor and composer, "The Stately Homes of England" [1938 song] and see: The stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land. --Felicia Hemans (1793-1835) English poet, "The Homes of England" [1849] - And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who! --Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) English novelist and journalist  ;void(0)) ARIZONA . . MORE PHOTOGRAPHS OF SEDONA, ARIZONA: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~apthomas/sedona/ see "PLACES" for related links Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know. --Charles Kuralt (1934-1997) American journalist and broadcaster, _Dateline America_ [1979] Come to Arizona, where summer spends the winter. --anon. ...And where Hell spends the summer. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist and literary critic ;void(0)) ARLEN, HAROLD . . ARLEN, HAROLD [Hyman Arluck] (1905-1986) see "MUSIC" for related links see "PEOPLE" for related links He wasn't as well known as some of us, but he was a better songwriter than most of us, and will be missed by all of us. --Irving Berlin (1888-1989) American songwriter [upon Arlen's death in 1986] Harold is the most original of all of us. --George Gershwin (1898-1937) American composer - http://www.haroldarlen2005.com/ . . see "WAR & PEACE" for related links - The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten. --Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) American Republican statesman and President [1923-1929]; Speech at Northhampton, Massachusetts, accepting the Republican vice-presidential nomination [27 July 1920] No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or insure it victory in time of war. --Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) American Republican statesman and President [1923-1929] - Old soldiers never die, They simply fade away. --J. Foley (1906-1970) British songwriter, "Old Soldies Never Die" [1920 song] (possibly from the First World War) Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy. --Claude-Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771) French philosopher. For a free people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. --Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American statesman and president [1801-1809]. - As a long-time collector of idiotic statements I've noticed that where race once inspired the most sublime idiocies, today's Best Of are inspired by women in the military. They are also much easier to find. Key phrases fairly leap off the page: `` pregnant sailors . . .Army called too aggressive . . . lighter and less dangerous hand grenades . . . stepladders added to obstacle courses . . . a training program to stamp out profanity at Fort Hood . . . the possibility of single mothers taking babies to war . . . '' These are statements to read through spread fingers, the way jurors look at autopsy photos. Morning papers are especially dangerous because sudden movements can make you spill hot coffee in your lap. --Florence King (1936- ) - The consul called the troops an army who had betrayed military discipline and deserted its standards. He then asked them individually where their weapons were, or their standards, as the case might be, and gave orders that every soldier who had lost his equipment, every standard-bearer who had lost his standard, every centurion, too, who had abandoned his post, should be first flogged and then beheaded. The remainder were decimated. --Livy [Titus Livius] (59 BC-17 AD) with Sallust and Tacitus, one of the three great Roman historians [EB], _The History of Rome_, in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] Cohan & Major note that: This is the earliest (471 BC) recorded example of decimation, the selection by lot of every tenth man for execution. It is probably an instance of the creation of an early precedent for a later practice. It was rarely carried out but was revived at the end of the Republic and used from time to time by emperors. Physical courage is never in short supply in a fighting army. Moral courage sometimes is. --Matthew B. Ridgway (1895-1993) American army general who planned and executed the first major airborne assault in U.S. military history with an attack on Sicily [July 1943] In _The Korean War_ [1967] - I don't consider myself dovish and I certainly don't consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlish--that is, wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war. --H. Norman Schwarzkopf III (1934- ) American general who commanded the U.S. forces in the Gulf War of 1991, in "New York Times" [28 January 1991] - Air power is our initial line of defense, but no one has proved to my satisfaction that we will have only world wars to be settled only by big bangs. . . . Infantrymen at one time or another become indispensable. Nothing we have discovered will reduce the need for brave men to fight our battles. --Maxwell D. Taylor (1901-1987) American army general and diplomat, c.1955, quoted in his obituary in the "New York Times" [21 April 1987] - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) English poet, "The Charge of the Light Brigade" [1854] - The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer. --Motto of the United States Army Service Forces in World War II --- Dear United States Army: My husband asked me to write a recommend that he supports his family. He cannot read, so don't tell him. Just take him. He ain't no good to me. He ain't done nothing but raise hell and drink lemon essence since I married him eight years ago, and I got to feed seven kids of his. Maybe you can get him to carry a gun. He's good on squirrels and eating. Take him and welcome. I need his grub and the bed for the kids. Don't tell him this, but just take him. --Anonymous hand-delievered in 1943 by an Arkansas man to his draft board. In _A Curmudgeon's Garden of Love_, compiled and edited by Jon Winokur ----- billet (noun) 1. nonmilitary lodging assigned to troops, esp. in a private home. Synonyms: quarters 2: a military order making such an assignment. Part of Speech transitive verb Inflected: billeted, billeting, billets 1: to assign lodging to (a member of the military). 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