"I am involved in the land of..." - Quote by Alexander Great
I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.
More by Alexander Great
“We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war”
“You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.”
“My logisticians are a humorless lot ... they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay.”
More on Courage
“I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.”
“Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.”
“It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.”
More on People
“No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.”
“If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed.”
“I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.”