Richard Foreman > Quotes

“The Somme would have run red with English blood if we would have given battle at Blanchetaque. And”
― Richard Foreman, Agincourt

“We are all on a fool’s errand in some respect. It’s just that some fools get to complete their errands. The gods, yours or mine, created man for amusement. The trick is to learn to laugh along with the joke.”
― Richard Foreman, Sword of Rome: The Complete Campaigns

“Too many people nowadays equate money with taste... They believe that the apogee of art is to shock, or be new or different... But there’s nothing new under the sun, including vulgarity...”
― Richard Foreman, Centurion

“Rome and its riches should not be the preserve of just Romans and the rich.”
― Richard Foreman, Son of Rome

“We may all talk of peace but behind such words we will all still plan for war.”
― Richard Foreman, Praetorian

“How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should add to the treasury of the rich. But that seems to be the fate that the present authorities have in store for us. Taxes are now due to be raised as high as the colonnades on the villas that they are constructing. The only taxes which are due to be rescinded are those imposed by Caesar upon certain luxury goods I have heard. One should be a friend to business, but not to corruption …We must cleanse the augean stables.”
― Richard Foreman, Son of Rome

“Life can be as unpleasant as people, partly because people make life unpleasant.”
― Richard Foreman, Blood & Vengeance

“When has a politician ever listened to reason?”
― Richard Foreman, Sword of Rome: The Complete Campaigns

“the people wanted politicians to be politicians – and just sit around and talk whilst not actually doing anything.”
― Richard Foreman, Sword of Rome: The Complete Campaigns

“We are no longer citizens, but subjects.”
― Richard Foreman, Blood & Honour

“Facts rarely got in the way of certain politicians and dissenters spouting nonsense,”
― Richard Foreman, Centurion

“Like garden weeds, conflict always seems to find a way of sprouting up,”
― Richard Foreman, Sword of Rome: The Complete Campaigns

“Someone should tell the government that you cannot keep minting money as a cure-all to the problems of the economy... As both a state, and also as individuals, we have crippled ourselves with debt.”
― Richard Foreman, Praetorian

“For reasons of efficiency – and indeed freedom – you should be able to choose what you do with your money, rather than let a government, made up of over-bloated, self-serving bureaucrats, decide. Tax is as much the enemy as the Marcomanni. High taxes have been implemented not just to pay for the war, but rather to pay for a client state, populated by those who work for the government and those who receive their dole from it. Such are those numbers now that too many can and are persuaded into voting certain politicians into power – who further fuel high taxes, indebtedness and a client state...”
― Richard Foreman, Praetorian

“Others followed the demagogue out of greed.”
― Richard Foreman, Blood & Vengeance

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury,”
― Richard Foreman, Centurion