"My son, seek thee out a kingdom equal to thyself; Macedonia has not room for thee."
Philip of Macedon (Plutarch, Lives of the Noble Greeks)
"No one would have believed in the last years of the twentieth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
H. G. Wells, War Of The Worlds
"Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison."
Lutetia (Paris), 1842.
"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free."
Abraham Lincoln, 1858 Republican state convention
"Who could enumerate this formidable army of Christ? No one, I think, had ever seen or could ever see a like number of such brilliant knights."
Anonymi Gesta Francorum (1101)
"At two hours after midnight appeared the land, at a distance of two leagues. They handed all sails and set the treo, which is the mainsail without the bonnets, and lay-to waiting for daylight Friday, when they arrived at an island of the Bahamas that was called in the Indians' tongue Guahahani (San Salvador)"
Christopher Columbus, Journal of the First Voyage (October 10, 1492)
"I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death !"
Patrick Henry, 1775 Virginia Convention, Richmond
"Peace is the dream of the wise; war is the history of man."
Sir Richard Francis Burton, quoting an old proverb
"Everything has tended to regenerate them; new laws, a new mode of living, a new social system; here they are become men."
Jean de Crevecoeur, 1782
"The choice is the universe or nothing."
H.G. Wells
"My life was too short to achieve the conquest of the whole world."
Genghis Khan, last words to his sons, 1227 AD
"Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England."
Napoleon I (Bonaparte)
"Armed neutrality is ineffectual enough at best."
Woodrow Wilson to the U.S. Congress
"Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you."
Nikita Khrushchev
"They were tough. Tough to kill and heavily armed. The last time I saw one go down easy, it had been hit square in the face with a three-shot burst of heavy plasma."
Commander Johnnie Gray, X-COM Captain
