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“The presence especially of old men in the ranks also ensured that battle was not seen as a youthful frolic where both sides lined up in some strange game of chicken. Instead, the elders taught the younger men that such decisive fighting was the only way to end the ordeal as quickly as possible.”
― The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece by Victor Davis Hanson
― The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece by Victor Davis Hanson
“This myth called bravery, which is half panic, half-lunacy (in my case, all panic), pays for all; in England you can’t be a hero and bad. There’s practically a law against it.”
― Flashman
― Flashman
“Imperialism, however, lays burdens, both economic and political, upon the homeland of the conquerors, and its rewards are often illusory…A nation cannot live, or fancy itself to be living, by the efforts of subjects overseas, without some demoralization of its public life at home.”
― Age of Reconnaissance Discovery Explorat
― Age of Reconnaissance Discovery Explorat
“The steady economic and social progress made throughout Greece from the seventh to the late fifth century B.C attests to the singular genius of Hoplite warfare: it was a system that prevented the constant and inevitable internecine struggles from having any harmful lasting influence on the culture of the Greek city-state.”
― The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece by Victor Davis Hanson
― The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece by Victor Davis Hanson
“I, Suethes, on the other hand, consider that there are no nobler and more brilliant possessions that a man, and particularly a man who holds power, can have than honour and fair dealing and generosity. A man who has these is rich in the possession of many friends and rich in the fact that many others want to become friends of his.”
― The Anabasis of Xenophon ..
― The Anabasis of Xenophon ..
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