"I've seen fifty-some battles, and there's not a place on my body without the blow of a sword, the thrust of a spear or the throw of a bow. yet here I am, dying the death of a camel, so may the eyes of cowards never sleep."
khalid ibn al-walid's last words
"I am sending you the Caravan, one end will be here at Syria and the other end will be at Madinah."
the governer of Syria to the Caliph, telling him of the supplies relieving the Arabian peninsula from its famine, 638-639 AD.
I also like to cite this after a victory:
"see them run!" british soldier in Quebec, 1759. he said it to Gen.James wolfe as he lay dying.
"God is on the side with the most artillery" Napoleon Bonaparte.
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