WAR
Each heart is Freedom's shield,
And heaven is shining o'er us.
"Go, with a song of peace," said Fingal; "go,
UUin, to the king of swords. Tell him that we
are mighty in war; that the ghosts of our foes
are many."
Ossian—Carthon. L. 269.
Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.
In war the olive branch of peace is of use.
Ovid—Epistoloe Ex Ponto. I. 1. 31.
There is a hill in Flanders,
Heaped with a thousand slain,
Where the shells fly night and noontide
And the ghosts that died in vain,
A little hill, a hard hill
To the souls that died in pain.
Everard Owen—Three Hills. (1915)
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| text = <poem>It is the object only of war that makes it honorable. And if there was ever a just war since
the world began, it is this in which America is
now engaged. * * *
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country
free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
Thomas Paine—The Crisis.
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| text = These are the times that try men's souls.
The Summer soldier and the sunshine patriot
will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of
their country, but he that stands it now deserves
the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered; yet we
have this consolation with us, that the harder
the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What
we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly; it
is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon
its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so
celestial an article as freedom should not be
highly rated.
Thomas Paine—The Crisis.
War even to the knife.
Palafox, the governor of Saragossa, when
summoned to surrender by the French, who
besieged that city in 1808. Generally
quoted "At the point of the knife."
It cannot be made, it shall not be made, it will
not be made; but if it were made there would be
a war between France and England for the possession of Egypt.
Lord Palmerston—Speech, 1851, referring
to the Suez Canal (an example of an indiscreet and unfulfilled prophecy).
Hell, Heaven or Hoboken by Christmas.
Attributed to General John Joseph Pershing. (1918)
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| text = <poem>Lafayette, we are here.
Gen. John Joseph Pershing. At the
tomb of Lafayette. (1918) On the authority of a letter from the General's military
secretary to George Morgan, Jan. 4, 1919.
WAR
Infantry, Artillery, Aviation—all that we have
—are yours to dispose of as you will. . . I have
come to say to you that the American people
would be proud to be engaged in the greatest
battle in history.
Gen. John Joseph Pershing to Gen. Foch,
Letter written from Office of the Commanderin-Chief, American Expeditionary Forces,
in France. See "literary Digest History of
World War," Vol. V. P. 43. March 28,
1918.
Us ne passeront pas.
They shall not pass.
General Petain. At the end of Feb., 1916,
General de Castelnau was sent by General
Joffre to decide whether Verdun should be
abandoned or defended. He consulted with
General Petain, saying: "They (the
Germans) must not pass." General Peiain
said: "They shall not pass." In France
the people credit it to General Joffre. See
N. Y. Times, May 6, 1917.
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| text = <poem>From the Rio Grande's waters to the icy lakes
of Maine,
Let all exult, for we have met the enemy again.
Beneath their stern old mountains we have met
them in their pride;
And rolled from Buena Vista back the battle's
bloody tide,
Where the enemy came surging swift like the
Mississippi's flood,
And the Reaper, Death, with strong arms swung
his sickle red with blood.
Santa Anna boasted loudly that before two
hours were past
His Lancers through Saltillo should pursue us
fierce and fast.
On comes his solid infantry, line marching after
line.
Lo! their great standards in the sun like sheets
of silver shine.
Gen. Albert Pike—Battle of Buena Vista.
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my
country I never would lay down my arms,—
never! never! never!
William Pitt the Elder. Nov. 18, 1777.
He who first called money the sinews of the
state seems to have said this with special reference to war.
Plutarch—Life of Ckomenes. 27.
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| text = <poem>Sylla proceeded by persuasion, not by arms.
Plutarch—Lysander and SyUa Compared.
It is the province of kings to bring wars about;
it is the province of God to end them.
Cardinal Pole—To Henry VIII.
She saw her sons with purple death expire,
Her sacred domes involved in rolling fire,
A dreadful series of intestine wars,
Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars.
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