25 result(s) for World War 1 Quotes.
"The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time."
"It cannot be right that in the twentieth century such a situation [World War I] should be possible, that one nation should be permitted to hack its way through treaties, to flout the public opinion of the world, and to set at defiance, as Germany has done, all the principles upon which civilization rests."
"The world must be made safe for democracy."
"We are merely carrying out the tradition of our ancestors."
"How frightful, how terrible it is! But this is how it is: and to have lived it through is a great thing."
"I know I can save Germany. I am indispensable for the war."
"The war to end war."
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"This is not peace. It is an armistice for 20 years."
"I am the last German Emperor!"
"Modern war is not like a football match where the game goes on until one side or the other scores a goal. It is more like a gangrenous infection of which one is well advised to get rid before it is too late."
"The killing machine has been glorified. The killer is a hero. The act of killing is an act of honor. How can man ever be truly civilized, with such belief?"
"The difference between a revolution and a world war is that in a revolution the guilty are punished as well as the innocent."
"If I die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England."
"Soldiers of France, I go to take my place in the battle. We know what discipline can do; we know our mettle; I call on you in the name of the past successes; I command you to conquer."
"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."
"I have seen war. I hate war."
"In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers."
"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."
"War is a defeat for humanity."
"Dead men’s dreams drain into the soil that feeds us."
"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
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"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
"War is what happens when language fails."
"I know enough of war to say that nothing is more foolish."
"War is a monster."
