> "By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten tim

> "By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain." For anyone wonder, H. G. Wells in The War of the Worlds * https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10445439-for-so-it-had-come-about-as-indeed-i-and https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10445439-for-so-it-had-come... * https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/621562-by-the-toll-of-a-billion-deaths-man-has-bought https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/621562-by-the-toll-of-a-bil...