Quotation from: The Gods of Mars

Written by: Edgar Rice Burroughs

"I have come back from a land of false hope, from a valley
of torture and death; with my companions I have escaped from the
hideous clutches of lying fiends. I have come back to the Barsoom
that I saved from a painless death to again save her, but this time
from death in its most frightful form."

"Cease, blasphemer!" cried Zat Arras. "Hope not to save thy cowardly
carcass by inventing horrid lies to--" But he got no further. One
does not call John Carter "coward" and "liar" thus lightly, and
Zat Arras should have known it. Before a hand could be raised to
stop me, I was at his side and one hand grasped his throat.