Quote#Love
For you all love the screw-guns the screw-guns they all love you!
Quote byRudyard Kipling · 1865–1936
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896), Screw-Guns, Stanza 6..
English (original)
For you all love the screw-guns the screw-guns they all love you! So when we take tea with a few guns, o' course you will know what to do—hoo! hoo! Jest send in your Chief an' surrender it's worse if you fights or you runs: You may hide in the caves, they'll be only your graves, but you can't get away from the guns!
— Rudyard Kipling
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