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Ouvrez toujours à vos ennemis toutes les portes et chemin, et plutot leur faites un pont d'argent, afin de les renvoyer.

Always open all gates and roads to your enemies, and rather make for them a bridge of silver, to get rid of them.

RABELAIS Gargantua. Bk. I. Ch. XLIII.

COUNT DE PITILLAN, according to GILLES CORROZET-Les Divers Propos Memorables (1571) uses the same phrase with "golden" bridge for "silver." The same suggestion was made by Aristides, referring to the proposal to destroy XERXES' bridge of ships over the Hellespont. ("A bridge for a retreating army.") See PLUTARCH-Life of Demosthenes. LOUIS II, BRANTOME-Memoirs. Vol. 1. II. P. 83. Also French trans. of THOMASI-Life of Cæsar Borgia. P. 64.

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(See also MASSINGER, SCIPIO, AFRICANUS)

He that fights and runs away,

May turn and fight another day;

But he that is in battle slain,

Will never rise to fight again.

RAY-History of the Rebellion. P. 48. (1752) (See also BUTLER)

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And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. Revelation. XVI. 16. Armageddon. Correct reading is Har-Magedon, signifying Mountain of Megiddo. Authorized version, City of Megiddo. Mount Megiddo possibly

Mount Carmel. The plain of Megiddo lay
at its foot. Scene of many battles.
(See also ROOSEVELT, WHITTIER)

Brother Jonathan sat by the kitchen fire,
Nursin' his foot on his knee.

"It's a turrible fight they're havin' out there, But they can't git over to me."

And Jonathan jingled the coins in his han'
An' thanked the good God for the sea.
C. A. RICHMOND Brother Jonathan.

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Twelve mailed men sat drinking late,

The wine was red as blood.

Cried one, "How long then must we wait Ere we shall thunder at the gate,

And crush the cursed brood?" Twelve men of iron, drinking late, Strike hands, and pledge a cup of hate: "The Day!"

C. A. RICHMOND The Day.
(See also LISSAUER)

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The morning came, there stood the foe;
Stark eyed them as they stood;
Few words he spoke 'twas not a time
For moralizing mood:

"See there the enemy, my boys!

Now, strong in valor's might, Beat them or Betty Stark will sleep In widowhood to-night."

J. P. RODMEN-Battle of Bennington.

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To you men who, in your turn, have come together to spend and be spent in the endless crusade against wrong; to you who face the future resolute and confident; to you who strive in a spirit of brotherhood for the betterment of our nation; to you who gird yourselves for this great new fight in the never-ending warfare for the good of mankind, I say in closing what I said in that speech in closing: "We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord."

ROOSEVELT Speech, at Chicago, Progressive Convention, Aug. 5, 1912, quoting from his speech in June.

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(See also REVELATION)

Righteous Heaven, In thy great day of vengeance! Blast the traitor And his pernicious counsels, who, for wealth, For pow'r, the pride of greatness, or revenge, Would plunge his native land in civil wars.

NICHOLAS ROWE-Jane Shore. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 198.

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England expects every officer and man to do his duty this day.

NELSON Signal, Oct. 21, 1805, to the fleet before the battle of Trafalgar. As reported in the London Times, Dec. 26, 1805. England expects that every man will do his duty. As reported by WILLIAM PRYCE CUNBY, First Lieut. of the Bellerophon. The claim is that Nelson gave the order "Nelson confides," which was changed to "England expects." See Notes and Queries, Series VI, IX, 261.283; also Nov. 4, 1905. P. 370.

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For bragging time was over and fighting time

was come.

HENRY NEWBOLT Hawke.

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A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers; There was lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears.

C. E. S. NORTON (Lady Stirling-Maxwell) -Bingen on the Rhine.

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March to the battle-field, The foe is now before us;

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These are the times that try men's souls. The Summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

THOMAS PAINE-The Crisis.

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War even to the knife.

PALAFOX, the governor of Saragossa, when summoned to surrender by the French, who besieged that city in 1808. Generally quoted "At the point of the knife."

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It cannot be made, it shall not be made, it will not be made; but if it were made there would be a war between France and England for the possession of Egypt.

LORD PALMERSTON Speech, 1851, referring to the Suez Canal (an example of an indiscreet and unfulfilled prophecy).

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Hell, Heaven or Hoboken by Christmas.

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From the Rio Grande's waters to the icy lakes of Maine,

Let all exult, for we have met the enemy again. Beneath their stern old mountains we have met them in their pride;

And rolled from Buena Vista back the battle's bloody tide,

Where the enemy came surging swift like the Mississippi's flood,

And the Reaper, Death, with strong arms swung his sickle red with blood.

Santa Anna boasted loudly that before two hours were past

His Lancers through Saltillo should pursue us fierce and fast.

On comes his solid infantry, line marching after

line.

Lo! their great standards in the sun like sheets of silver shine.

GEN. ALBERT PIKE-Battle of Buena Vista.

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If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms,-never! never! never!

WILLIAM PITT the Elder. Nov. 18, 1777.

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He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war.

PLUTARCH-Life of Cleomenes. 27. (See also CICERO)

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Sylla proceeded by persuasion, not by arms. PLUTARCH-Lysander and Sylla Compared.

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It is the province of kings to bring wars about;

Attributed to GENERAL JOHN JOSEPH PER- it is the province of God to end them.

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SHING. (1918)

Lafayette, we are here.

GEN. JOHN JOSEPH PERSHING. At the tomb of Lafayette. (1918) On the authority of a letter from the General's military secretary to George Morgan, Jan. 4, 1919.

CARDINAL POLE-To Henry VIII.

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She saw her sons with purple death expire, Her sacred domes involved in rolling fire, A dreadful series of intestine wars, Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars. POPE-Windsor Forest. L. 323.

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