Andrew

“The Roaring Eighties were a new gilded age, where winning was celebrated at all costs.”
― Bryan Burrough, Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

“Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!”
― David Farragut

“One of history's few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted. Then they begin to count on it. Finally they reach a point where they can't live without it.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“England expects that every man will do his duty.”
― Horatio Nelson