The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in out time
- British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey, 1914

Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others
- Lord Nelson

The Russians dashed on towards that thin red-line streak tipped with a line of steel
- Sir William Howard Russell

We happy few, we band of brothers/For he today that sheds his blood with me/Shall be my brother
- William Shakespeare, King Henry V (IV.iii.60-2)

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe
- Herbert George (H. G.) Wells

We have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual enemies.  Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and these interests it is our duty to follow
- Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start.  The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit; and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry! England and
    Saint George!'

- William Shakespeare, King Henry V, III, i, 31