Encounters Quote by Lucretius

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.

— Daniel Boone

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

— Ian Frazier

In Iraq and Afghanistan, in Georgia and the Persian Gulf, our adversaries have gained immense advantage with gray zone warfare, irregular and unconventional operations…

— Michael Waltz

I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a…

— Buffalo Bill

Great battles are won with artillery.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few…

— Anonymous

Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness.

— Christina, Queen of Sweden

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

— Desiderius Erasmus

I have been through two wars in my 24 years, and I know what it's like to be without anything, to see the bombs…

— Novak Djokovic

“It is one of the many graveyards which are the Great War's chief heritage. The chronicle of its battles provides the dreariest literature in…

— John Keegan

“Primitive (and guerrilla) warfare consists of war stripped to its essentials: the murder of enemies; the theft or destruction of their sustenance, wealth, and…

— Lawrence H. Keeley

A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness…

— Georgia O'Keeffe