It is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streams the most abundant and most marvellous liquor that has ever flowed to relieve the thirst of men.

God suffers in the multitude of souls whom His word cannot reach. Religious truth is imprisoned in a small number of manuscript books which confine instead of spreading the public treasure.

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

-- Tokugawa Ieyasu

I shall give Japan a good laundering.

-- Sakamoto Ryōma

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

-- Zhuge Liang

Writing is only good for recording names. Swordsmanship defeats one man — that's not worth learning. I want to learn what defeats ten thousand.

-- Xiang Yu

Let the boy win his spurs.

-- Edward, the Black Prince

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

-- Joan of Arc