Wars and Battles
Read more about this topic: Spartan Army Famous quotes containing the words wars and, wars and/or battles:“I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.” “Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.” “These battles sound incredible to us. I think that posterity will doubt if such things ever were,—if our bold ancestors who settled this land were not struggling rather with the forest shadows, and not with a copper-colored race of men. They were vapors, fever and ague of the unsettled woods. Now, only a few arrowheads are turned up by the plow. In the Pelasgic, the Etruscan, or the British story, there is nothing so shadowy and unreal.” |