War Quotes — page 37

The Government can lose the war without you; they cannot win it without you.

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about.

Though I have been trained as a soldier, and participated in many battles, there never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword. I look forward to an epoch when a court, recognized by …

The enemy must be vanquished completely and I will dictate the peace terms at the point of my soldiers' bayonets.

What are ten, twenty, or thirty millions when the British Empire is at stake? This is an artillery war. We must have every gun we can lay hands upon.

Must stay there and also foment war and revolt against England. Doesn't he yet know of the intended alliance, under which he is to be Commander in Chief?!

I should like to see a Welsh Army in the field. I should like to see the race who faced the Normans for hundreds of years in a struggle for freedom, the race that helped to win Crecy, the race that fought for a generation under Glendower, …

[The coming war is] the last battle between Teutons (Germans) and Slavs

This, Mr. Emmot, is a war Budget. It is for raising money to wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness.

[The unavoidable] racial war, the war of Slavdom against Germandom

Shoot down, behead and eliminate the Socialists first, if need be, by a blood-bath, then war abroad. But not before, and not à tempo.

[The German Legion] which, in conjunction with Blucher and the Prussians at Waterloo, saved the British Army from destruction.

Imagine a monarch, holding personal command of his army, disbanding his regiments, sacred with a hundred years of history—and handing his towns over to Anarchists and Democracy.

The soldier and the army, not Parliamentary majorities and decisions, have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.