“Success, I trust — indeed have little doubt — will crown our zealous and well-meant endeavours: if not, our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone.”

Letter to George Robertson (15 August 1855)
1850s

Ch 10
The Little Lame Prince and his Travelling Cloak (1875)
Context: Thus King Dolor's reign passed, year after year, long and prosperous. Whether he was happy — "as happy as a king" — is a question no human being can decide. But I think he was, because he had the power of making everybody about him happy, and did it too; also because he was his godmother's godson, and could shut himself up with her whenever he liked, in that quiet little room in view of the Beautiful Mountains, which nobody else ever saw or cared to see. They were too far off, and the city lay so low. But there they were, all the time. No change ever came to them; and I think, at any day throughout his long reign, the King would sooner have lost his crown than have lost sight of the Beautiful Mountains.

Source: Don't Start the Revolution Without Me! (2008), Ch. 11 (p. 212)

His last radio transmission to the Japanese military headquarters.

Quoted in "Pacific Affairs" - Page 51 - by University of British Columbia, Institute of Pacific Relations

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), (July 28, 2016)

Source: Russka: the Novel of Russia

As quoted in A Life of General Robert E. Lee (1871), by John Esten Cooke