Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day; if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.

— SIR JACOB ASTLEY,

prayer before the Battle of Edgehill, English Civil War

I had rather a plain russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

— OLIVER CROMWELL

[The Celts] were chopped down with axes and swords but the blind fury never left them while there was breath in their bodies.

— PAUSANIAS,

Greek historian