troop quotes

For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms18:29.

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreigntroopwaslanded inmycountry,Inever would lay down my armsnevernevernever!

-William, 1st Earl of Chatham known as  the Elder Pitt
  Speech to the House of Lords,18 Nov.

'I call it a criminal thing in any one's great-great- grandfather to rear up a preposterous troop of sons and plant them all out in his own country', Lady Knox said to me with apparent irrelevance.'I detest collaterals. Blood may be thicker than water, but it is also a great deal nastier.'

-Martin Ross
  Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.,'Philippa's Fox-Hunt'.

I will teach you my townspeople how to perform a funeral for you have it over a troop of artists unless one should scour the world you have the ground sense necessary.

-William Carlos Williams
  Al Que Quiere!,'Tract'.