Famous quotes containing the words light, horse and/or troops:
“If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“O, now for ever
Farewell the tranquil mind, farewell content,
Farewell the plumèd troops and the big wars
That makes ambition virtue! O, farewell!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)