World War 1 Quotes

• I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

  Winston Churchill

  Determination, Military, War

  Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940

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  The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

  George S. Patton

  Country, Military, War

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning.

  David M. Shoup

  Military, Marine, Winning

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• I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Hate

  Speech in Ottawa on January 10, 1946. "Eisenhower Speaks: Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches". Book edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels, 1948.

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• The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.

  James Forrestal

  Military, War, Mean

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• I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

  George McGovern

  Dream, Peace, Military

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

  Bertrand Russell

  Peace, Military, War

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• The world must be made safe for democracy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Presidential, Democracy, World

  Address to Joint Session of Congress asking for declaration of war, 2 Apr. 1917 See ThomasWolfe 1

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• I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2003). “Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity”, George Braziller

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• Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Military, War

  Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

  John Stuart Mill

  Military, War, Patriotic

  "The Contest in America", Fraser's Magazine, February 1862.

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• Air superiority is a condition for all operations, at sea, in land, and in the air.

  Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder

  War, Sea, Land

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• Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Bridges, Cities

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• The enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield. We must stop him in the water, destroying all his equipment while it is still afloat!

  Erwin Rommel

  War, Water, Enemy

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• Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!

  Benito Mussolini

  War, Italian, Dawn

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• The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Patriotic, Political

  Speech to Congress, 2 Apr. 1917, in Selected Addresses (1918) p. 195

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• All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, War, Battle

  Benjamin Franklin, E. Sargent (1855). “The select works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.459

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• The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!

  Adolf Hitler

  War, World, Intention

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Men, Years

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• We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Ghetto

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Doors, Rotten

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• When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!

  William Halsey

  Memorial Day, Military, War

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• War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Fear, War

  "On Being Fit to Live with: Sermons on Post-war Christianity".

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• There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

  Havelock Ellis

  Peace, War, Achieve

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• Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that the Japanese would embark on such a mad enterprise.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Taken, Army

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