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“There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies”

— Churchill

“'Go to many dances?' 'Not one' 'What shows did you go to?' 'I didn't go to any shows' 'Hunt?' 'No.' 'Slept with any nice girls?' 'No, I didn't. Sorry to dissapoint you.' 'What the hell did you do, then?' 'Oh, I just walked about on some hills.' 'Good God,' he said, 'Chaps like you don't deserve leave.'”

— Robert Graves - Goodbye to all that

“"King Albert I has been badly treated by historians, who have too readily embraced the propaganda of his enemies - that he was 'a boorish man, with only one eye and a look that made you sick... a miser who kept his money to himself and gave nothing to the empire except for children of which he had many.' Certainly, Albert lacked an eye. In 1295 his physicians had mistaken an illness for poisioning and to expel the imagined fluid they had suspended him upside-down from the ceiling. The consequent compression to his skull had robbed him of an eyeball. Albert was a prolific father too, siring no less than twenty-one children.”

— The Hadsburgs - Martyn Rady

“So Athens came to flourish - and to make manifest how important it is for everyone in a city to have an equal voice, not just on one level but on all. For while the Athenians, while subjects of a tyrant, had been no more proficient in battle than any of their neighbours, they emerged as supreme by far once liberated from tyranny. This is proof enough that the downtrodden will never willingly pull their weight, since their labours are all in the service of a master - wheras free men, because they have a stake in their own exertions, will set to them with enthusiasm"”

— Herodotus, The Histories