Blood Quote by Charles Fletcher Dole

“Wellington once told a junior officer that timing was everything in life, and who was Hugo to disagree with the victor of Waterloo, especially…

— Jeffrey Archer

“The popular image [in England] of Bonaparte as a blood-stained tyrant and bandit was admittedly exaggerated, but instinct told even the most radical among…

— J. Christopher Herold

“To such atrocities may men be driven who use the dagger for a cross, and upon whose mind the most trivial event makes a…

— Victor Hugo

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It was before Deity embodied in a human form walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves,…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live…

— Laurens van der Post

He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now…

— Dante Alighieri

Through all history, from the beginning, a noble army of martyrs have fought fiercely and fallen bravely for that unseen mistress, their country. So,…

— George William Curtis

What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million…

— Helen Keller

Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the…

— Richard Wagner

Victorious men of earth, no more Proclaim how wide your empires are; Though you bind in every shore And your triumphs reach as far…

— James Shirley

“Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre which will always rise upon the frontier, and which will guard the future. Despot but dictator; a…

— Victor Hugo