“Every influence, every motive, that provokes the spirit of murder among men, impels these mountaineers to deeds of treachery and violence. The strong aboriginal propensity to kill, inherit in all human beings, has in these valleys been preserved in unexampled strength and vigour. That religion(Islam) which above all others was founded and propagated by the sword -- the tenets and principles of which are instinct with incentives to slaughter and which in three continents has produced fighting breeds of men -- stimulates a wild and merciless fanaticism.”- Sir Winston Churchill from his book The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War ; written in 1898 about the land now known as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
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Brilliant quote from a man who served as a link between mortal men and the heroes of ages past!
Brilliant quote from a man who served as a link between mortal men and the heroes of ages past!
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