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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
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Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others
- Lord Nelson
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The Russians dashed on towards that thin red-line streak tipped with a line of steel
- Sir William Howard Russell
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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)
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe
- Herbert George (H. G.) Wells
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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
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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
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