A Quote by Duke of Wellington

The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.

Duke of Wellington

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Duke of Wellington
British - Public Servant
May 1, 1769 - September 14, 1852

The French system of conscription brings together a fair sample of all classes; ours is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. It is only wonderful that we should be able to make so much out of them afterwards.

Duke of Wellington

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

Duke of Wellington

The Moroccan scum in Holland... once again not all are scum... but there is a lot of Moroccan scum in Holland who make the streets unsafe, mostly young people... and that should change.

Geert Wilders

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

W. Somerset Maugham

Don't think our soldiers are weak. Give them a free hand, and no power on the earth can defeat them.

Rajnath Singh

Not all are scum, but there is a lot of Moroccan scum in Holland who makes the streets unsafe.

Geert Wilders

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are fighting, as I said before, against the scum of the earth

Christopher Hitchens

Marcone's scum... But he's his own scum.

Jim Butcher

Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.

Kurt Vonnegut

n the world, those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.

Masashi Kishimoto

When you associate with scum, you become scum.

Kathy Wakile

Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the Earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land; or was it made to preserve all her children?

Gerrard Winstanley

I know I am made from this earth, as my mother's hands were made from this earth, as her dreams came from this earth and all that I know, I know in this earth, the body of the bird, this pen, this paper, these hands, this tongue speaking, all that I know speaks to me through this earth.