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1[[AC:Journalism]]
2->''It is a feature of powerful military empires that they like to romanticise their victims and luxuriate guiltily in the pathos of their suffering. ''
3-->-- '''UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson''', ''The Daily Telegraph'', 2010.
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5->''Among the savage and noble red men of America, the chief was selected because of his superior wisdom, or sagacity, or because he was more brave and daring than his fellows. There was some sense in that. But in our civilized communities the chief of the nation is usually more stupid than one half of his subjects, and is king merely because he was borned of a king and a queen.''
6-->'''Ross Winn''', ''Winn's Firebrand'', 1903
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9->''Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.''
10-->-- "Literature/TheTowerOfTheElephant"
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13->''Before my grandfather's grandfather was born, this was our land. These are our good places. Our gods live here, in the trees and rivers. They watch over us. We are happy. We hunt, we love, we have families, homes, and good life.''
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15->''But sometimes we must fight. The Romans disturb the gods; they burn the forests. They take what is ours: wives, children, land. And the Romans talk of how they will "help" us and "protect" us. They put us to sleep with golden promises; when we wake, all we had is gone - stolen! They take our sons and turn them into little Romans! Hah!''\
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18->''So we fight to keep what is ours. What must stay ours! There can be no peace! No peace with Romans! Men of stone and iron and '''lies'''!'' ''There can be only '''war!'''''
19-->-- The '''[[BarbarianTribe Gaul]]''' opening of ''{{VideoGame/Rome Total War}}''

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