Word: attila
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...Guen whom even Nero and Attila must envy...
...saved today from the ravages of consumption and pneumonia is one more to serve tomorrow as a target for gas waves and poison bombs. Destruction has always been a much more interesting pastime than mere beneficial prevention. This is proved by the popular renown of such geniuses as Attila, Nero, and Guy Fawkes, about whom every student of history reads with a secret feeling of fellowship. On the other hand very few could tell offhand the accomplishments of Laennec, Koch, or Takamine...
...Gentlemen: While the Italian peninsula is under the reactionary storm of Mussolini, the despot impersonating Attila, Caligula, Nero and all the enemies of liberty, we, Italians residing here, strongly protest in the name of civilization against the Yale University entertaining and honoring Gelasio Caetani, a champion of Mussolini...
Poincaré, speaking at Commercy, said: "We have known the Germans for nineteen hundred years, and we have never been able to notice much change in them. Whether they call themselves Germans, Astrogoths or Visigoths; whether they enroll themselves beside the Huns in the armies of Attila or put themselves under the leadership of the Prussians; whether they trick us at Leipzig; whether they are defeated at Ligny or the conquerors at Waterloo; whether they surround us at Sedan or are crushed along the Marne; whether they falsify the Ems telegram in 1870 or violate Belgian neutrality in 1914, they...
...Napoleon who had dreams of empire a century ago, or the French? Was it Attila who scourged God, or the Huns? That nation is a nation of exceeding fools which fights for conquest without knowing, the desire for conquest, nor the value of conquest. And no nation of exceeding fools was ever able to fight as has Germany. Or to fight at all, for that matter...