"Germany fears all;
Austria risks all;
Bavaria hopes for all;
Prussia attempts all;
Mayence sells all;
Portugal watches all;
England wants to do all;
Spain confuses all;
Savoy distrusts all;
Mercury mixes with all;
France buys all;
The Jesuites are into all;
Rome blesses all;
If God does not provide for all,
The devil will take it all away."

-- Anonymous Poem that circulated throughout Europe in 1741 during the War of the Austrian Succession

"The first step towards philosophy is incredulity."

-- Denis Diderot - Last Conversation

"Hearts of oak are our ships,
Jolly tars are our men,
We always are ready, boys, steady,
We'll fight and will conquer again and again"

-- David Garrick - Hearts of Oak

"Damn you, why don't you and the French fight on the sea? You come here only to cheat the poor Indians and take their lands from them!"-- Shamokin Daniel, a Delaware on the Ohio, to the English

"The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Await alike th' inevitable hour,
The paths of glory lead but to the grave."--Thomas Gray - Elegy in a Country Churchyard

"`The paths of glory lead but to the grave'... Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec."

-- General James Wolfe

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