Quote by William King

“It could have been a foxhole in the Somme being shelled by the Germans and all that mattered was her next to me in…

— Donna Tartt

“He must recruit others like him—those willing to hunt the Legion by becoming what they hated most.”

— William King

“He stopped at the gate on his way back to the temple, where Gracilis, the Twentieth’s hard-case wolf hunter from the Campanian mountains, was…

— Douglas Jackson

“Other forces were at work besides conformism. But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Why does each thing on the earth war against each other thing? Why does each small thing in the world have to fight against…

— G.K. Chesterton

“An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. Neither the Channel nor the Rhine will arrest its progress. It will…

— Thomas Paine

“At that moment he didn’t like mankind, the grown-ups, the adults. He never liked them when it was dark. At such times it was…

— Robert Musil

“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

“Despite their inglorious end, the legions remain to this day, thousands of years after their creation, the most pre-eminent example of how detailed organization,…

— Stephen Dando-Collins

“Only the victors have stories to tell. We, the vanquished, were all cowards and weaklings by then, whose memories, fears, and enthusiasms should not…

— Guy Sajer

“I see everything," he cried, "everything that there is. Why does each thing on the earth war against each other thing? Why does each…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Send anyone who preaches war to a special frontline legion -into the assault, into the attack, ahead of everyone.”

— Leo Tolstoy