"Before them and on every hand foul lanes and deep dykes and many hedges with hills and valleys: a right evil place to approach, as could have been devised."

"Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken."

"Cherish youth, but trust old age."

"The weakness of the enemy makes our strength."

"What men in all the world have shown such daring?"

"We went there to serve God, and also to get rich."

"My lord if we cross the bridge we are dead men."

"I have brought you to the revel, now dance if you can!"

"That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears."

"Crusades Campaign: War, it is no stranger to men of faith. Who are driven to fight with a fury no king or sultan can inspire. From across the sands and the seas. They fight for the holy lands. To ensure the hell that is their lives will grant their passage into heaven."

"Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance."

"Wisdom comes only when you stop looking for it and start living the life the Creator intended for you."

"A good man does not take what belongs to someone else."

"After dark all cats are leopards."

"...Then he ordered a musket to be fired, which was the signal we had agreed on; and they received a blow they will remember for ever, for we killed many of them, and the promises of their false idols were of no avail."

"As for us, we were scarcely four hundred strong, and we well remembered the word and warning...we had received to beware of entering the city of Mexico, since they would kill us as soon as they had us inside."

"These Aztecs then came and I told them to observe how they could not triumph, and how each day we did them great harm and killed many of them and we were burning and destroying their city."

"So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound..."

"The common folk of the land followed him as their leader and ruler; the retainers of the great lords adhered to him..."

"From that time there gathered to him all who were of bitter heart and were weighed down beneath the burden of bondage under the intolerable rule of English domination and he became their leader."

"They flayed him and divided pieces of his skin between them, not as keepsakes but out of hatred of him."

"We shall then defeat the whole lot of them in one go!"

"Britannia Campaign: War, it has always been a part of life in the British Isles. From Roman times until present day, no king or emperor has called this realm his own. Five kings now stand ready to do battle over this lands. They will make Britannia theirs, or die in the attempt."

"...Henry seeing he could not resist the multitude of the Scots, turned his horse with the intention of returning to his companions; but Robert opposed him and struck him on the head with an axe."

"Teutonic Campaign: War, a scourge that breaks out wherever different faiths meet. Being the last of the pagan kingdoms, Lithuania faces a bloody destiny, hunted by the Teutonic Knights, they must give up their false gods, or they must risk giving up their lives instead, in an ungodly war!"

"Americas Campaign: War, it was no stranger to the people of the New World. Blood and death were always a part of life in this hidden lands. But when the Old World arrived from across the seas. It would clash with the new in a war that forever change the Americas."

"All who have died are equal."

"You cannot see the future with tears in your eyes."

"You can't win them all."

"There is nothing as eloquent as a rattlesnake's tail."

"One finger cannot lift a pebble."

"The one who tells the stories rules the world."

"In death, I am born."

"Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is pregnant."

"We dared not charge them except all together... For they were so numerous that they could have blinded us with clods of earth if God, of His great mercy, had not aided and protected us."

"Then Cortés told them that the King's laws decreed such treachery should not go unpunished, and that they must die for their crime."

"And when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight and level causeway leading to Mexico, we were astounded..."

"It was all so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of before..."

"For I assure Your Majesty that if God had not mysteriously assisted us and the victory had gone to Narváez, it would have been the greatest harm that Spaniards had done to each other for a long time past."

"Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many and we were but few."

"They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us..."

"...and our allies fighting with us were armed with swords and bucklers, and slaughtered so many of them on land and in the water that more than forty thousand were killed or taken that day."

"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World."

"Evil priests are the cause of the people's ruin, so the ruin of the realm of Scotland had its source within the bosom of its own church"

"... and even though the lords themselves were present with the English king in body, at heart they were on the opposite side."

"A certain bloody man ... who had been chief of brigands in Scotland"