“No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ”
Charles de Montesquieu
“Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field”
Winston Churchill
“If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.”
Bible
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be never so vile. This day shall gentle his condition. And gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.”
William Shakespeare
“Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men”
David Lloyd George
“For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, / They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.”
“Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.”