Goals Quote by Paul Bowles

“Apparently while my squad and I were on our way here, skipping through the French countryside, picking daisies, having picnics, and laying farmer's daughters,…

— Robert Rodat

“If these self-anointed leaders did not keep the people aroused with calls to preserve the Revolution, or to defend it from one imaginary foe…

— Robert Masello

“The sudden, brilliant victory in France, like a Frankenstein monster, had turned against us; we had far outstripped our ability to supply the troops.”

— Robert E. Merriam

“They knew all about the war with France from Papa’s magazines. But whenever they tried to imagine what a war was actually like, it…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“I fought for a cause. And yes, I looted and I gained glory, but I went into that battle to protect my people. Have…

— Tom Wood

“He continues to believe, here on his French leave, and at his ease, that the interference is temporary and paper, a matter of messages…

— Thomas Pynchon

“he beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He…

— Victor Hugo

“They believed that overpowering the feeble French meant something. They believed in the righteousness of their cause, the inevitability of their victory, and the…

— Rick Atkinson

“They reminded me, however, of soldiers in the Crusades, the Wars of the Roses or the Norman Conquest. Thick, but willing to fight anyone…

— Karl Wiggins

“King Richard, who was a strong, restless, burly man, with one idea always in his head, and that the very troublesome idea of breaking…

— Charles Dickens

“He firmly believed that the French aristocrat was the most bitter enemy of France; he would have wished to see every one of them…

— Emmuska Orczy

“Then forth, dear countrymen: let us deliver Our puissance into the hand of God, Putting it straight in expedition. Cheerly to sea; the signs…

— William Shakespeare