War Quotes — page 36

Unhappy it is though to reflect, that a Brother's Sword has been sheathed in a Brother's breast, and that, the once happy and peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched with Blood, or Inhabited by Slaves. Sad alternative! But can …

The war has ended - quite differently, indeed, from how we expected. Our politicians have failed us miserably.

Trial of the Kaiser; punishment of those responsible for atrocities; fullest indemnities from Germany; Britain for the British, socially and industrially; rehabilitation of those broken in the war; and a happier country for all.

If they want eternal war, well and good; we accept the issue, and will dispossess them and put our friends in their place.

The war is over — the rebels are our countrymen again. The war is over, the Rebels are our countrymen again, and the best sign of rejoicing after the victory will be to abstain from all demonstrations in the field.

It is not the business of socialists to help the younger and stronger robbers. Socialists must take advantage of the struggle between the robbers to overthrow all of them. To be able to do this, socialists must first of all tell the people …

A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

I see that we must strike a balance. We have nearly reached the limit of our powers of resistance. The war must be ended.

At eleven o’clock this morning came to an end the cruellest and most terrible War that has ever scourged mankind. I hope we may say that thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars.

I am satisfied, and have been all the time, that the problem of this war consists in the awful fact that the present class of men who rule the South must be killed outright rather than in the conquest of territory.

I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of N. Va. on the following terms

What caused the war? The greed of the Italian money bags and capitalists, who need new markets and new achievements for Italian imperialism. What kind of war was it? A perfected, civilised blood bath, the massacre of Arabs with the help of …

I get an obsession that everybody is out for what they can get during the war and it makes me sick.

The battle is won, the English have been utterly defeated.

I have always stood during the whole of my life for the under-dog. I have not changed, and am going still to fight his battle.

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

To Bring political knowledge to the workers the Social-Democratss must go among all classes of the population, must dispatch units of their army in all directions

I will take the Duchy of Courland, I, the victor by the strength of my sword, but not from the hand of the assembly.

The men and women of this country will be burnt into fine building material for the new Britain in the fiery kilns of the war.

You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you …

My inclination is to whip the rebellion into submission, preserving all Constitutional rights. If it cannot be whipped any other way than through a war against slavery, let it come to to that legitimately. If it is necessary that slavery …

Agreed, reject...This is the end of negotiations with America, once and for all! If Wilson wants war, let him provoke it and then have it.