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The Monstrous Regiment of Women. -- John Knox
He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred. -- Abraham Lincoln
If you look at footage of the Newfoundland Regiment, you see they are at rest and giddy and being silly with one another. Silliness is the antidote to trench warfare. -- Michael Winter
The true distinction ... between what is called a fine Regiment, and an indifferent one will ever, upon investigation, be found to originate in, and depend upon the care, or the inattention, of the Officers belonging to them. -- George Washington
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
Into the Blizzard' follows the author as he traces the footsteps of the Newfoundland Regiment during the First World War: where they trained in Scotland, where they fought in Gallipoli and where they died at the Battle of the Somme in France. -- Michael Winter
The fantastic thing about the memorial to the Newfoundland Regiment at Beaumont-Hamel is that it's one of the rare examples where they've preserved a battlefield more or less as it was. You can see all the trenches, where the British were, where the Germans lined up. -- Michael Winter
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day? -- Christopher Marlowe
On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam. -- Hans Frank
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense. -- Polly Toynbee
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
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
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
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
With the newspapers cheering, Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt chose a top-notch regiment of more than 1,250 men. They were first called Teddy's Texas Tarantulas and went through three or four other monikers until Roosevelt's Rough Riders stuck. -- Douglas Brinkley
I can't do Twitter or Facebook, mostly because I feel like I'm the type of person who has to regiment the amount of time I spend doing certain things or I'll just wade in it, and then I'll never come out. -- Bill Hader
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
Obama invented himself against all odds and repeated parental abandonment, and he worked hard to regiment his emotions. But now that can come across as imperviousness and inflexibility. He wants to run the agenda; he doesn't want the agenda to run him. Once you become president, though, there's no way to predict what your crises will be. -- Maureen Dowd
He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting. -- W.S. Gilbert
Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I was a section commander in the parachute regiment [in the British army]. -- Scott Raab
To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves. -- Etheridge Knight
I eat whatever I want. I can get away with it. There are some strict regiment eatings, but I don't follow them. -- Tyler Posey
A man who knew his job as he spent a long time commanding a regiment and who earned great respect from everybody. -- Aleksandr Vasilevsky
I said [to my mom], "I want to go to the parachute regiment." She said, "Whew, that's tough. But okay, I understand." -- Scott Raab
However noble their purpose, we must beware of institutionalized methods that indoctrinate and regiment and fashion every Christian into a common evangelistic mold. -- Richard Halverson
The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced. -- Robert Toombs
There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go. -- Chesty Puller
When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks. -- H. L. Mencken
Alexia, did you know there is an entire regiment decamping on your front lawn? Laddy Maccon sighed. "Really, Ivy, I would never have noticed. -- Gail Carriger
The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make room in his soul. -- Mary McCarthy
it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them. -- Sun Tzu
If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it. -- Edward Bernays
There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them. -- Michel de Montaigne
Wagons to move the camp of a regiment from one place to another, and some of the camps had bakeries and cooking establishments that would have done credit to Delmonico." -- William T. Sherman
You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all! -- Leo Tolstoy
What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements. -- Lord Byron

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