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World War I20 quotes
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. — Rupert Brooke · 1914The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. — Sir Edward Grey · 1914If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied. — Rudyard Kipling · 1919America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand. — Woodrow Wilson · 1916They died to save their country and they only saved the world. — G.K. Chesterton · 1922Died some, pro patria,
Non 'dulce' non 'et decor'…
Walked eye-deep in hell
Believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving
Came home, home to a lie. — Ezra Pound · 1920All 20 quotes →War5 quotes
In those days, when every male who could stand half-way erect was being shipped to Verdun to undergo a radical change of posture from the vertical to the eternal horizontal. — Gunter Grass · 1959I gave my life for freedom-This I know:
For those who bade me fight had told me so. — William Norman Ewer · 1914Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end. — Douglas Haig · 1918The war has used up words. — Henry James · 1915The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires. — Wilfred Owen · 1917Horrors of war3 quotes
Died some, pro patria,
Non 'dulce' non 'et decor'…
Walked eye-deep in hell
Believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving
Came home, home to a lie. — Ezra Pound · 1920The war has used up words. — Henry James · 1915The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires. — Wilfred Owen · 1917Dying for one's country2 quotes
They died to save their country and they only saved the world. — G.K. Chesterton · 1922I gave my life for freedom-This I know:
For those who bade me fight had told me so. — William Norman Ewer · 1914Abuses of patriotism1 quote
I gave my life for freedom-This I know:
For those who bade me fight had told me so. — William Norman Ewer · 1914America and the world1 quote
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand. — Woodrow Wilson · 1916American ideals1 quote
The day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. — Woodrow Wilson · 1917Foreign policy1 quote
The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name. — Woodrow Wilson · 1914Germany1 quote
The Germans, if this Government is returned, are going to pay every penny; they are going to be squeezed as a lemon is squeezed-until the pips squeak. — Eric Geddes · 1918No surrender1 quote
Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end. — Douglas Haig · 1918World War II1 quote
The Germans, if this Government is returned, are going to pay every penny; they are going to be squeezed as a lemon is squeezed-until the pips squeak. — Eric Geddes · 1918