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Mercenary Quotes by A. E. Housman
- Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his…
- These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead.…
More Mercenary Quotes
- We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain… — Sam Houston
- Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and… — Leo Tolstoy
- Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in… — John Burroughs
- A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. — Joseph Pulitzer
- I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a… — Maureen O'Hara
- But I think what we're coming to grips with is the fact that we actually have a mercenary Army, and it doesn't… — Eleanor Clift
- That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he… — Henry David Thoreau