Robert Bertrand

“There is but one thing to do, Alice," and he spoke as quietly as though they were sitting in their snug living room at home, "and that is work. Work must be our salvation. We must not give ourselves time to think, for in that direction lies madness.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

“In Venice and the French city of Verdun ‘castration houses’ were set up to produce eunuchs for export to Egypt and other Muslim countries. The majority of the young boys were Slavs taken prisoner by the Vikings and then sold on to slavers. The Slavs, from whose name is derived the modern word ‘slave’, are an ethnic group which originated in what is today western Russia. By the sixth or seventh century AD, they had spread south into the Balkans, almost as far as Greece, and west into what is now Poland.”
― (Historian) Simon Webb, The Forgotten Slave Trade: The White European Slaves of Islam

“What you inherited without lifting a finger—except to poison a few brothers—I fought for.”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan The Barbarian: The Complete Collection (Bauer Classics)