“When people harm Americans we don’t retreat, and we don’t forget…They should know, we will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justice, because hell is where they will reside! Hell is where they will reside!”

— Joseph Robinette Biden Jr
47th Vice President, United States
speech
September 3, 2014
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, York, Maine, United States

“The foreign countries made a conspiracy in their islands. All at once the lands were removed and scattered in the fray. No land could stand before their arms: from Hatti, Kadesh, Carchemish, Arzawa, and Alashiya on, being cut off at one time. A camp was set up in Amurru. They desolated its people, and its land was like that which has never come into being. They were coming forward toward Egypt, while the flame was prepared before them. Their confederation was the Peleset, Tjeker, Shekelesh, Denyen, and Weshesh, lands united. They laid their hands upon the land as far as the circuit of the earth, their hearts confident and trusting: ‘Our plans will succeed!’”

  — Ramesses III,
2nd Pharaoh, 20th Dynasty, Egypt
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c. 1170 BC – 1150 BC
Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III, Luxor Temple, Luxor, Luxor Governate, Egypt