Famous quotes containing the words historical, australian, army, world and/or war:
“What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a Man ... by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“Each Australian is a Ulysses.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)
“I’m the boss, you’re an idiot. You’re the boss, I’m an idiot.”
—Russian army saying, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)
“People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next, I guess if we made it to heaven, we’d have to help make it thunder.”
—Georg Büchner (1813–1837)
“Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)