05-25-2005, 03:47 AM
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I've been playing Rome: Total War a lot recnetly and I've come to love the quotes that each game load presents.
I googled for some, but couldn't come up with the list of quotes that they use, but here are some gems I found from other periods:
http://www.fortliberty.org/quotes/quotes-war.shtml
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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others. -- Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist No. 34
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget ye were our countrymen. -- Samuel Adams
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. -- Thomas Paine
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. -- Dwight David Eisenhower
There is one source, O Athenians, of all your defeats. It is that your citizens have ceased to be soldiers. -- Demosthenes
Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. -- -- General George S. Patton
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
Some people live their entire lifetime and wonder if they ever made a difference to the world. Marines don't have that problem. -- United States President Ronald Reagan, January 1995
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory. -- General George S. Patton, Jr.
Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it. -- Will Rogers
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. -- John Adams in letter to Abigail Adams, May 12, 1780
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. -- John Stuart Mill
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. -- Martin Luther King Jr., June 23, 1963. Speech in Detroit.
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