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Words from the Warlord

June A.S. XVII

We in the Society are very fortunate. We can enjoy all the romantic aspects of War, without suffering from it's horrors. I have seen both kinds, and I vastly prefer our way; camaraderie and, high spirits before battle; the thunder and glory of swords on shields; the heroics; the crash of a charge striking home! And in this spirit I offer the following words from others upon the nature of War:

"Do you not know that I live by war, and that peace would be my undoing?"
-John Hawkwoode

"Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils."
-Shakespeare: Henry V, III vii

"In war there is no second prize for the runner up."
-Qmar Bradley

"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."
-Winston Churchill

"Give me an armour of eternal steel! I go to conquer Kings!"
-Edward III

"If you cannot attend a war … sit back you."
-Dan O'Neil

"The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction."
-William Blake

"After the burial parties leave
And the baffled kites have fled;
The wise hyenas cane out at eve
To take account of our dead."
-Rudyard Kipling

"Hard pounding this, gentlemen. Let's see who will pound longest."
-Wellington (at Waterloo)

"You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!"
-Nietzsche

And so I end my last column, and wish you all many joyous wars where honor and glory are found… And afterward the dead rise from the field, embrace their enemies and lift a glass to the gallant battles of the day.

-Eric Foxworthy, Warlord of Southern Shores

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