Army Quote by Thucydides

How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians for the…

— Polybius

“And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. ”

— Matthew Arnold

“Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been…

— Alexander the Great

“For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turn—fighting without and fear within. But…

— Scotty Smith

“To the Greeks [the Macedonians] were uncouth, semi-civilized barbarians. The Macedonians for their part despised the Greeks as effete, wishy-washy Greeklings. Both regarded the…

— Nicholas Sekunda

I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.

— Charles Dickens

Chin up, Ferdinand," I kept saying to myself, to keep up my courage. "What with being chucked out of everywhere, you're sure to find…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“The army that I wish to raise from the wealth that we’ve acquired is to fight the Macedonian intrusions, as well as to create…

— Ashwin Sanghi

“The armies of the night are faceless and mindless and the modern equivalent of Visigoths, but when they have a leader, their time in…

— James Lee Burke

Part of their problem was Percy. He fought like a demon, whirling through the defender's ranks in a completely unorthodox style, rolling under their…

— Rick Riordan

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.

— Heinrich Heine

It was no picnic despite what anyone might say later . . . . Most of us were pretty scared all the bloody time;…

— Colin S. Gray