Military Merit Cross is the name for a military decoration in various states, including:
- Military Merit Cross (Austria–Hungary) (Militärverdienstkreuz) (in three classes)
- Military Merit Cross (Czechoslovakia)
- Military Merit Cross (Peru) (in five classes)
- German States:
- Military Merit Cross (Prussia) (Militär-Verdienstkreuz), also called the Golden Military Merit Cross (Goldenes Militär-Verdienstkreuz) to distinguish it from the Military Decoration 1st Class, an identical cross but in silver.
- Military Merit Cross (Bavaria) (Militär-Verdienstkreuz) (in three classes)
- Military Merit Cross (Mecklenburg-Schwerin) (Militärverdienstkreuz) (in two classes)
- Military Merit Cross (Hesse), 1870–71 (Militär-Verdienst-Kreuz 1870/71)
- Military Merit Cross (Waldeck) (Militär-Verdienstkreuz)
Famous quotes containing the words military, merit and/or cross:
“In all sincerity, we offer to the loved ones of all innocent victims over the past 25 years, abject and true remorse. No words of ours will compensate for the intolerable suffering they have undergone during the conflict.”
—Combined Loyalist Military Command. New York Times, p. A12 (October 14, l994)
“Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)
“He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 27:42.