Nullum cum victis certamen et sethere cassis.
Brave men ne'er warred with the dead and vanquished.
On dit que Dieu est toujours pour les gros bataillons.
It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
On to Richmond.
Fitz-Henrt Warren. Used as a standing
headline in the N. Y. Tribune, by Dana,
June-July, 1861, before the McDowell campaign.
A great and lasting war can never be supported
on this principle [patriotism] alone. It must be
aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.
Washington—Letter to John Banister. Valley
Forge, April 21, 1778.
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Washington—Speech to Both Houses of Congress. Jan. 8, 1790.
We do not with God's name make wanton play;
We are not on such easy terms with Heaven;
But in Earth's hearing we can verily say,
"Our hands are pure; for peace, for peace we
have striven,"
And not by Earth shall he be soon forgiven
Who lit the fire accurst that flames to-day.
Sir W. Watson—To the Trovhler of the
World, Aug. 5, 1914.
They went to war against a preamble, they
fought seven years against a declaration.
Daniel Webster—Speech on the Presidential
Protest. May 17, 1834.
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Up Guards and at 'em!
Attributed to Wellington during the Battle
of Waterloo. Denied by the Duke to Mr.
Croker, in answer to a letter written March
14, 1852. "What I must have said, and
possibly did say was, 'Stand up guards!'
and then gave the order to attack." See
J. W. Choker's Memoirs. P. 544. Also
Sir Herbert Maxwell's Biography of
WAR
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so
melancholy as a battle won.
Wellington—Despatch. (1815)
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Attributed to Wellington. "The battle of
Waterloo was won here," was said by the
Duke of Wellington when present at a
cricket match at Eton. Prop. W. Selwyn
—Waterloo, a Lay of Jubilee. (Second Ed.)
The whole art of war consists in getting at
what is on the other side of the hill.
Duke op Wellington—Saying.
This new Katterfelto, his show to complete,
Means his boats should all sink as they pass by
our fleet;
Then as under the ocean their course they steer
right on,
They can pepper their foes from the bed of old
Triton.
Now we remember over here in Flanders,
(It isn't strange to think of You in Flanders!)
This hideous warfare seems to make things
clear.
We never thought about You much in England,
But now that we are far away from England
We have no doubts, we know that You are
here.
Mrs. C. T. Whitnall—Christ in Flanders.
First appeared in the London Spectator.
Later in the Outlook. July 26, 1916.
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Our champion waiting in his place
For the last battle of the world,
The Armageddon of the race.
Whittier—Rantoul.
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I will die in the last ditch. (Dyke.)
William op Orange. Hume—History of England. Ch.XLIII.
Germany's greatness makes it impossible for
her to do without the ocean, but the ocean also
proves that even in the distance, and on its farther side, without Germany and the German
Emperor, no great decision dare henceforth be
taken.
William II, the former German Emperor—
Speech, July, 1900.
Our German Fatherland to which I hope will
be granted ... to become in the future as
closely united, as powerful, and as authoritative
as once the Roman world-empire was, and that,
just as in the old times they said, "Civis romanus
sum," hereafter, at some time in the future,
they will say, "I am a German citizen."
William II, the former German Emperor—
Speech, in Oct., 1900.
Every bullet has its billet.
King William III, according to Wesley—Journal, June 6, 1765. Also in Song by H. R. Bishop, sung in The Circassian Bride. Quoted by Sterne—Tristram Shandy. Vol. VIII. Ch.XIX.
