1980
Quoted from Katherine Tupper Marshall, Annals, p. 153
“It is not the trappings that make the prince, nor, indeed, the sword that makes the warrior.”
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book I: The Book of Three (1964), Chapter 2
“Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness…”
"The Phoenix on the Sword" (1932)
2010s, 2013, In defense of Obama’s drone war (2013)
“Three times the warrior has embraced the maid
in his huge arms.”
Tre volte il Cavalier la donna stringe
Con le robuste braccia.
Canto XII, stanza 57 (tr. Wickert)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
“Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he
That every man in arms should wish to be?”
Source: Character of the Happy Warrior http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww302.html (1806), Line 1.
Variant translation: First, as is often said, a samurai must have both literary and martial skills: to be versed in the two is his duty. Even if he has no natural ability, a samurai must train assiduously in both skills to a degree appropriate to his status. On the whole, if you are to assess the samurai's mind, you may think it is simply attentiveness to the manner of dying.
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Ground Book
“Only the sword now carries any weight in the balance for the destiny of a nation.”
(1914) [Adam Zamoyski, The Polish Way, 1987, 422, John Murray, London, ISBN 0531150690, p. 332]
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