Tim Johnson

“If providence has created the stars and the planets, Man has called the cannon-ball into existence.”
― Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon and 'Round the Moon

“the army turned its tanks on the people and a terrible violence was born that would leave generations of Colombians looking over their shoulders in fear, waiting for the moment”
― Wade Davis, Magdalena: River of Dreams

“The lust of conquest, when associated with religious fanaticism, has been the greatest scourge of the human race.”
― William Deans, History of the Ottoman Empire

“Kings are only men, and whatever iron cannot achieve against them, words can.”
― Djeli Mamoudou Kouyaté