"My knowledge of pain, learned with the sabre, taught me not to be afraid. And just as in dueling when you must concentrate on your enemy's cheek, so, too, in war. You cannot waste time on feinting and sidestepping. You must decide on your target and go in."

— Otto Skorzeny

"The United Nations is useless... and also harmful. It is a land that flowers demagoguery with a bunch of newborn countries, devoid of any tradition."

— António de Oliveira Salazar

Celtic Gold Dagger excavated from Hallstatt dated about the 6th Century BCE on display at the Naturhistorisches Museum

The rare golden objects in the Hallstatt graves are rather small where as the gold objects found in barrow graves elsewhere from this period are significantly larger. Gold seems to have been reserved for the political elite and the lack of larger objects suggests richer lords resided elsewhere.

Lycurgus was a Spartan lawgiver who lived, according to Aristotle, more than 850 B.C.; refusing the crown he had inherited, he visited foreign countries, and returned to Sparta, making many radical changes in the social and political system; having imposed a strong aristocratic constitution, by which domestic affairs were regulated by the state, he obtained from the people an oath that they would not alter his laws during his absence; and went into exile, from which he never returned.

“That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick.” - Lycurgos To those who asked whether they should enclose Sparta in walls


"Try it in your own households." - When some one recommended democracy to him, and advised him to establish it in Sparta

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