Jóhannes Birgir Jensson

Eight hundred years your people have been fighting wars, and every single one of ’em started because the Romans were afraid of somebody, some bunch of woolly-backed savages who were bound to come raping and pillaging throughout the empire unless they were smacked down first. Eight centuries of pre-emptive strikes, millions of people dead and mutilated, because you Romans reckon peace is a good idea

–Thomas Holt, A song for Nero