Armies Quote by H. H. Asquith

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

— John R. Allen

You have sent me a Flanders mare.

— Henry VIII of England

Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.

— John Lothrop Motley

If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.

— Michael Flanders

Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

— Edmund Waller

“The crowd listened all the more closely for having waited and despaired, especially since this time the bells, ringing softly, demanded a deeper hush.…

— Georges Rodenbach

“I’ll find out who’s inside. Wait here and keep alert!’ Hallam rasped. He skirted the main path to skulk towards one of the shuttered…

— David Cook

In later years, it was common, and I was guilty in this respect, to question the motives of those who joined the new British…

— Sean Lemass

“It was van Hulle who had been the initiator of this restoration of their ancestral language to its former glory as a means of…

— Georges Rodenbach

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.

— John McCrae

All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering…

— James Connolly

Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.

— Michael Flanders