Theme
War and peace
Battle, occupation, refusal, and the morning after. Glory is allowed in the canon only when a witness is also allowed to answer it.
- We must love one another or die.W. H. Auden
- I came, I saw, I conquered.Julius Caesar
- From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.Chief Joseph
- We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.Winston Churchill
- I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.Winston Churchill
- Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.’Winston Churchill
- The eyes of the world are upon you.Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilles, and its devastation.Homer
- With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right.Abraham Lincoln
- That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.Abraham Lincoln
- Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.The Gospel of Luke
- You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.Malcolm X
- These are the times that try men’s souls.Thomas Paine
- To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.Sun Tzu
- The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.Thucydides
- There are tears for things, and mortal matters touch the mind.Virgil