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Quote of the moment

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be."

- Rosalynn Carter



Excerpts from the Remembrance

The Rememberance is an ongoing heroic saga detailing Clan history from the time of the Exodus of the Inner Sphere to the present day. The Rememberance is continually expanded to include contemporary events. Each Clan has a slightly different version reflecting their own opinions and experiences. All Clan warriors can quote whole verses of this marvellous epic from memory, and it is common to see passages from the book lovingly painted on the sides of OmniMechs, fighters, and even battle armour. Click on the following clans to see excerpts of their versions of The Remembrance.

Past Quotes

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ...Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens."

- Carl Gustav Jung

 

"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."

- John F. Kennedy

 

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."

- Benjamin Franklin

 

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."

- Helen Keller

 

"It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.  To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character."

- Dale Turner

 

"Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope."

- John Johnson

 

"The first victim of war is always the truth"

- Winston Churchill

 

Clan Literature

The martial culture of the Clans does not stiffle creativity. Most Clan art & literature is orientated towards the deeds, thoughts and actions of the noble warrior. Here are some recent additions.



To The Warmongers

I'm back again from Hell
With loathsome thoughts to sell;
Secrets of death to tell;
And horrors from the abyss.

Young faces bleared with blood,
Sucked down into the mud,
You shall hear things like this,
Till the tormented slain
Crawl round and once again,
With limbs that twist awry
Moan out their brutish pain,
As the fighters pass them by.

For you our battles shine
With triumph half-divine;
And the glory of the dead
Kindles in each proud eye.

But a curse is on my head,
That shall not be unsaid,
And the wounds in my heart are red,
For I have watched them die.

Siegfried Sassoon, 1917

"A Poison Tree" by William Blake

I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I watered it in fears,
Night and morning with my tears;
And I sunnèd it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.
And it grew both day and night,

Till it bore an apple bright;
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine,
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole:

In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretched beneath the tree.