Famous quotes containing the words wars, action and/or figures:
“We have to have wars now and then just to prove were top dog.”
—Reginald Berkeley (18901935)
“Acts themselves alone are history.... Tell me the acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish! All that is not action is not worth reading.”
—William Blake (17571827)
“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)