Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.
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Statement of 1812, quoted in Napoleon's Cavalry and its Leaders (1978) by David JohnsonNapoleon Bonaparte
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At this point the march of invention brought a new factor upon the scene. Iron was dug and forged. Men armed with iron entered Britain from the Continent and killed the men of bronze. At this point we can plainly recognise across the vanished millenniums a fellow-being. A biped capable of slaying another with iron is evidently to modern eyes a man and a brother.
Winston Churchill
When the sun shouts and people abound
One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze
And the iron age; iron the unstable metal;
Steel made of iron, unstable as his mother; the towered-up cities
Will be stains of rust on mounds of plaster.
Roots will not pierce the heaps for a time, kind rains will cure them,
Then nothing will remain of the iron age
And all these people but a thigh-bone or so, a poem
Stuck in the world's thought, splinters of glass
In the rubbish dumps, a concrete dam far off in the mountain...Robinson Jeffers
I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won't rust. And, this time I hope, the head will stay on.
Margaret Thatcher
We brought a man back who should have died long ago. The present can't stand a man like that anymore. Now they want indecision and compromise and reluctance and fear.
Mickey Spillane
What would you have done, had I been brought before you as a prisoner?
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