“Of all these, the Belgae are the bravest/strongest.”
Book I, Ch. 1
De Bello Gallico
Original
Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae.
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Roman politician and general -100–-44 BCRelated quotes
“The man who shot Liberty Valance,
He was the bravest of them all.”
Song The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
“I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees”
Following his mother's death, as reported in Shaka Zulu : The Rise of the Zulu Empire (1955) by E. A. Ritter, p. 319
Context: I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts turn to water, whilst their heads become giddy and incapable of thinking as the sweat of fear paralyzes them. They know no other will except that of their King, who is something above, and below, this earth.
“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
Bk. X, ch. 16
Source: War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869)
“The strongest of all governments is that which is most free.”
Letter to Simón Bolívar (27 September 1829). Quoted in James Hall, A Memoir of the Public Services of William Henry Harrison, of Ohio (Philadelphia, PA: Key & Biddle, 1836).
“The strongest of all the obstacles to progress, the reign of the dead.”
Private notes, quoted in G. E. Fasnacht, Acton's Political Philosophy. An Analysis (1952), p. 60, n. 1
Undated
“The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.”
