Quotes About The Continental Army

#1. The Continental army got more generals than they got private soldiers, these days. An officer lives through more 'n two battles, they make him some kind of general on the spot. Now, gettin' any pay for it, that's a different kettle of fish.

Diana Gabaldon

#2. His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army.

Joseph J. Ellis

#3. With regard to military discipline, I may safely say that no such thing existed in the Continental Army.

Friedrich Wilhelm Von Steuben

#4. It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.

Henry Louis Gates

#5. So, the moral of that story, other than never underestimate an independent bookseller, was that the Continental Army and its commander in chief had a soft spot for Chief Artillery Officer Henry Knox.

Sarah Vowell

#6. I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.

Abraham Lincoln

#7. Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.

Andreas Feininger

#8. When a chapter of your Life Book is complete, your spirit knows its time to turn the page so a new chapter can begin. Even when you're scared or think you're not ready your spirit knows you are.

Beth Hoffman

#9. I'll scream!"
"Likely. If not before, certainly during. I expect they'll hear ye at the next farm; you've got good lungs.

Diana Gabaldon

#10. People don't like politicians.

Jesse Ventura

#11. A time when the miracles of technology were still virile and exciting: steam engines and flying machines, not smart phones and cosmetic surgery. When there were still wildernesses left to explore and mountains left unclimbed

Ben Elton

#12. Confidence is sexy! I'm comfortable with my body and not afraid to show it off

Sofia Vergara

#13. Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. Esteem for the army - never in this country regarded, in the continental manner, as a popular expression of the national will - implies a kind of innocence.

Anthony Powell

#15. Physical studies of DNA had, of course, been under way for some years before analysis of virus particles began.

Alfred Hershey

#16. The most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies.

John Mearsheimer

#17. Gigantic second and third growth trees are found in the redwoods, forming magnificent temple-like circles around charred ruins more than a thousand years old.

John Muir

#18. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot because our charitable expenditure excludes them. - C. S. Lewis

Randy Alcorn

#19. The brutal fact is that in this Christian country not one person in a hundred has the faintest notion what the Church teaches about God or man or society or the person of Jesus Christ.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#20. Soap is another article in great demand
the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's pay will not enable him to purchase, by which means his consequent dirtiness adds not a little to the disease of the Army.

George Washington