Lance

“Once the sword was drawn there was no turning back; for blood called for blood, and vengeance followed swift on the heels of atrocity.”
― Robert E. Howard, Red Nails (Conan

“The Templars would later encounter Ismaili dualists in the form of the Assassins, who would descend from their Syrian mountain eyrie to commit acts of terror against all sides.”
― Michael Haag, The Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States

“Estimates of the number of people killed by Stalin range from as low as twenty million to as high as sixty-two million “unnatural deaths” during Stalin’s time as Soviet leader. The man who is credited with saying that “death solves all problems” and “One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic” murdered his own citizens through executions, artificial famines, forced-labor camps, incarceration, and torture.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan

“Officers have been trying for hundreds of years to outsmart soldiers and have still not learned that it cannot be done. We can always count on the native ingenuity of the American GI to save us from ourselves, and to win wars.”
― Colin Powell, My American Journey: An Autobiography