Cost Quote by John Knowles

“I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put…

— John Knowles

“There are forces, Lucius, infinitely more powerful than reason and science." " What are they?" asked Cotta. "Ignorance and folly," replied Aristaeus.”

— Anatole France

“But, to return to my design, what power was it that drew those stony, oaken, and wild people into cities but flattery? For nothing…

— Erasmus

Who could not conquer with such troops as these?

— Stonewall Jackson

This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a…

— William Shakespeare

The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours,"…

— Plutarch

For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage…

— Adolf Hitler

History is full of instances of people who challenged the mighty forces of evil and they were not only fighting a lonely battle but…

— Asghar Ali Engineer

In fact one of the things about Plotinus is that he maybe not singlehandedly, but I think more than anyone else, killed off the…

— Peter Adamson

The most formidable people in the world, and now the most dangerous, people who... lay down the doctrine that every frontier must be the…

— Winston Churchill

“He [Lucius Papirius Cursor] then gave the order to advance the standards and led out his troops, expostulating on the folly of a people…

— Livy

“To command one of the largest invasion forces ever attempted, Leo chose one of the worst commanders in history. His name was Basiliscus, and…

— Lars Brownworth