Fortune is so changeable that one must not put trust in her.

I serve.

I fight my enemies with swords, not with salt.

-- The 'Dragon of Echigo' — a Sengoku-era warlord whose devotion to righteous warfare and Buddhist faith made him Japan's most paradoxical military figure

He who knows only victory and does not know defeat will suffer for it.

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

The Empire's fate depends on this battle. Let every man do his utmost duty.

-- The admiral who destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima

I was originally a commoner, tilling the fields at Nanyang.

-- The legendary chancellor and military strategist of the Shu Han kingdom during China's Three Kingdoms period

Then we shall fight in the shade.

-- The Spartan king who led 300 warriors in a suicidal last stand at Thermopylae

In God's name, the soldiers will fight and God will give the victory.

-- The peasant girl who reversed France's fortunes in the Hundred Years' War and was burned at the stake at age nineteen