"When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them of one mind, string your bow, and place stones upon the ramparts."

"Disasters teach us humility."

"It is easy to be brave behind a castle wall."

"In a fight, anger is as good as courage."

"I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked."

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more!"

"Having done everything practical to make ready for so long a voyage, we prepared our souls to meet death, which is always on a sailor's horizon."

"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse."

"Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now rightfully fight against barbarians."

"On both sides the troops were commanded by royal princes and they massacred each other mercilessly."

"Many of the common people in the armies were desolate, fearing future poverty; and so they sold their bows and the cowards returned to their own homes."

"Let anyone who has zeal for God come with me! Let us fight for our brothers! Let Heaven's will be done!"

"Storm clouds gather over Europe, mistrust and rivalries between realms threaten to break and flood the world in a tide of Total War."

"Kill them all, God will recognise his own."

"In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention."

"The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears."

"Fortune favours the audacious."

"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."

"The strength of God will enable us, a small but faithful band, to overcome the multitude of the faithless."

"It is better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep."

"Nothing good ever comes of violence."

"War is the greatest plague that can affect humanity; it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it."

"The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises."

"So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil."

"The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers."

"Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised."

"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution."

"A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought... but war and its organisation and discipline."

"One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces."

"It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles."

"Strike up the drum and march courageously."

"Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n."

"Luck is the residue of design."

"Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War."

"If some among them are innocent, it is expedient that they should be assayed like gold in the furnace and purged by proper judicial examination."

"He doth nothing but talk of his horse."

"Go, bid the soldiers shoot."

"Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them."

"Give me another horse: bind up my wounds."

"A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!"

"A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers."

"We are ready to try our fortunes To the last man."

"Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him;"

"There's daggers in men's smiles."

"An emperor is subject to no one but God and justice."

"Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please."

"We who are the rest of the people raised our heart and eyes to heaven crying for God to have compassion upon us, and to turn away from us the power of the French."

"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."

"He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign."

"Come on soldiers! Guardians and agents of the supreme law! Here is a sacrifice of dogs ready for your swords!"