[BioForce1]

The key to victory is war is the realization that it never changes.

[Ribeye]

Funny. I saw Kenneth Brannaugh's excellent film version of Harry V for the millionth time this weekend. It's a fine film and IMO the best adaptation done.

And man! Could the Bard lay down the prose or what!?

[Austin Willard Wright]

Shakespeare also had a healthy distrust of the motivations of "statesmen" who send our soldiers to die in futile wars. The conservative Wilsonians who supported the Iraq crusade would do well to read this closely:

"Therefore, my Harry,

Be it thy course to busy giddy minds

With foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out,

May waste the memory of former days."

Henry IV, Part II: Act 4

[boris]

HORATIO

You will lose this wager, my lord.

HAMLET

I do not think so: since he went into France, I have been in continual practise: I shall win at the odds. But thou wouldst not think how ill all's here about my heart: but it is no matter.

HORATIO

Nay, good my lord,--

HAMLET

It is but foolery; but it is such a kind of gain-giving, as would perhaps trouble a woman.

HORATIO

If your mind dislike any thing, obey it: I will forestall their repair hither, and say you are not fit.

HAMLET

Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?

[tet68]

That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse: We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us.

[Valin]

You can't miss when you have good material!