"Dieu a fait des hommes grands et d'autres petits, je les ai rendus égaux." Samuel Colt

"Quand la chute est imminente la vermine fuit" Pline l'ancien

"Il faut toujours respecter la loi, sauf pour faire un coup d'état" Jules César

« Une rumeur effrayante nous arrive : Rome est prise […]. Ma voix s’étrangle et les sanglots m’interrompent tandis que je dicte ces mots. Elle est prise, cette ville qui a conquis l’univers ! » Une lettre de saint Jérôme, écrite depuis Bethléem en 410

« Faire grâce à ceux qui se soumettent et abattre les rebelles » Virgile

"L'insurgé se fond dans la population où il est comme "un poisson dans l'eau", compromet ses protecteurs bénévoles ou non et, souvent les entraîne dans sa chute" Michel Déon

"It is not enough. We stand in the dust at the end of centuries of useless sin and endless failure. The Legion was poisoned and we sacrificed an entire world to cleanse it. We failed. We are the sons of the only primarch to hate his own legion. There, again, we failed. We swore vengeance on the Imperium, yet we run from every battle where we don't possess overwhelming force over a crippled enemy. We fail, again and again and again. Have you ever fought a battle you'd struggle to win, with no hope of running away? Have any of us? Have you ever, since the Siege of Terra itself, drawn a weapon with the knowledge you might die? I will not see my life whored away without meaning. Do you hear me? Do you understand me, prince of cowards? I want vengeance against a galaxy that hates us. I want Imperial worlds to cower when we draw near. I want the weeping of this Empire's souls to reach all the way to Holy Terra, and the sound of suffering will choke the corpse-god on his throne of gold. I will cast a shadow across this world. I will burn every man, woman and child so the smoke from the funeral pyres eclipses the sun. With the dust that remains, I will take the Echo of Damnation into the sacred skies above Terra, and rain the ashes of twenty million mortals down onto the Emperor's palace. Then they will remember us. Then they will remember the Legion they once feared." Talos Valcoran

"They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them, and in the furnace of war forge them. They will be of iron will and steely muscle. In great armour shall I clad them and with the mightiest guns will they be armed. They will be untouched by plague or disease, no sickness will blight them. They will have tactics, strategies and machines so that no foe can best them in battle. They are my bulwark against the Terror. They are the Defenders of Humanity. They are my Space Marines and they shall know no fear."
~The Emperor of Mankind

"The time for speeches is done. The first great test is here. My order to you all is simple, yet heed it well, and exert yourselves to see it done. They are coming. Kill them all." - Rogal Dorn