Patrick Peterson

“As quickly as Kinemetrics repaired the wires, they were again—and repeatedly—cut in the dead of night by disgruntled union members in what Robertson later called “a continuing effort to sabotage the system.”
― Michael M. Greenburg, The Great Miscalculation: The Race to Save New York City's Citicorp Tower

“Judged by results, Patay's place is with the few supremely great and imposing battles that have been fought since the peoples of the world first resorted to arms for the settlement of their quarrels.”
― Mark Twain, The Complete Works of Mark Twain

“Sold to a French priest by a French prince, with the French King and the French nation standing thankless by and saying nothing.”
― Mark Twain, The Complete Works of Mark Twain

“You have saved the crown. Speak--require--demand; and whatsoever grace you ask it shall be granted, though it make the kingdom poor to meet it." Now that was fine, that was royal. Joan was on her knees again straightway, and said: "Then, O gentle King, if out of your compassion you will speak the word, I pray you give commandment that my village, poor and hard pressed by reason of war, may have its taxes remitted." "It”
― Mark Twain, The Complete Works of Mark Twain