Edward Shepherd Creasy > Quotes

“All republics that acquire supremacy over other nations, rule them selfishly and oppressively. There is no exception to this in either ancient or modern times. Carthage, Rome, Venice, Genoa, Florence, Pisa, Holland, and Republican France, all tyrannized over every province and subject state where they gained authority.”
― Edward Shepherd Creasy, The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo

“Arnold may, indeed, go too far in holding that we are wholly unconnected in race with the Romans and Britons who inhabited this country before the coming over of the Saxons;”
― Edward Shepherd Creasy, The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo

“he asked who, and what manner of men, the Athenians were. And when he had been told, he called for his bow; and, having taken it, and placed an arrow on the string, he let the arrow fly towards heaven; and as he shot it into the air, he said, 'O Supreme God! grant me that I may avenge myself on the Athenians.' And when he had said this, he appointed one of his servants to say to him every day as he sat at meat, 'Sire, remember the Athenians.”
― Edward Shepherd Creasy, The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo

“Through the whole epoch of her prosperity, through the long Olympiads of her decay, through centuries after her fall, Athens looked back on the day of Marathon as the brightest of her national existence.”
― Edward Shepherd Creasy, The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo

“871-900. Reign of Alfred in England. After a long and varied struggle, he rescues England from the Danish invaders.”
― Edward Shepherd Creasy, The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo