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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
Gaily! gaily! close our ranks!
Arm! Advance!
Hope of France!
Gaily! gaily! closed our read more
Gaily! gaily! close our ranks!
Arm! Advance!
Hope of France!
Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks!
Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!
Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment read more
Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it.
War is cruel and you cannot refine it. •William T. Sherman War is too serious a matter to read more
War is cruel and you cannot refine it. •William T. Sherman War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
Oft he that doth abide
Is cause of his own paine,
But he that flieth in good read more
Oft he that doth abide
Is cause of his own paine,
But he that flieth in good tide
Perhaps may fight again.
'Twas in Trafalgar's bay
The saucy Frenchmen lay.
'Twas in Trafalgar's bay
The saucy Frenchmen lay.
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore read more
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
Either this or upon this. (Either bring this back or be brought
back upon it.)
Either this or upon this. (Either bring this back or be brought
back upon it.)
And by a prudent flight and cunning save
A life which valour could not, from the grave.
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save
A life which valour could not, from the grave.
A better buckler I can soon regain,
But who can get another life again?