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“The warrior merely carries the sword on behalf of others.
His task is a lordly one because the warrior still agrees to die for the mistakes of others.”
― Alexandre Sanguinetti

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts”
― Horace

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Men of genius are made not by new ideas, but by an idea which possesses them, namely, that what has been said has not yet been sufficiently said.”
― Eugene Delacroix

“Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult”
― Carl Von Clausewitz

“It is unfortunate to have views different from the rest of mankind. It secures abuse.”
― Daniel Harvey HILL

“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
― Lewis Carroll

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

“When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“There is still one absolute weapon ... the only weapon capable of operating with complete effectiveness-of dominating every inch of terrain where human beings live and fight, and of doing it under all conditions of light and darkness, heat and cold, desert and forest, mountain and plain. That weapon is man himself.”
― Matthew B. Ridgway

“Prussians were singularly well prepared in other areas as well. They invented the “dog tag” in 1870: an oval disc worn by every soldier bearing his name, regiment, and place of residence.”
― Geoffrey Wawro, The Franco-Prussian War