War its thousands slays,
Peace its ten thousands.
The waves
Of the mysterious death-river moaned;
The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar
Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry
Of myriad victims, filled the air.
A man is known by the Company he joins.
Bad communication trenches corrupt good manners.
Never look a gift gun in the mouth.
A drop of oil in time saves time.
One swallow doesn't make a rum issue.
Where there's a war there's a way.
Proverbial sayings, popular in the Great War.
Origin about 1917.
If this bill passes ... as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Ccedes videtur significare sanguinem et ferrum.
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
Quintilian—Declamationes.
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| text = <poem>Ouvrez toujours a vos eimemis toutes les
portes et chemin, et plutot leur faites un pont
d'argent, afin de les renvoyer.
Always open all gates and roads to your
enemies, and rather make for them a bridge
of silver, to get rid of them.
Rabelais—Qargantm. Bk. I. Ch. XLIII.
Count de Pitillan, according to Ghxes Corrozet—Les Divers Propos Memorables (1571) uses the same phrase with "golden" bridge for "silver." The same suggestion was made by Aristides, referring to the proposal to destroy Xerxes' bridge of ships over the Hellespont. ("A bridge for a retreating army.") See Plutarch—Life of Demosthenes. Louis II, Brantome—Memoirs. Vol. 1. II. P. 83. Also French trans, of Thomasi—Life of CtBsar Borgia. P. 64. (See also Massinger, Scipio, Africantjs)
He that fights and runs away.
May turn and fight another day;
But he that is in battle slain,
Will never rise to fight again.
Ray—History of the Rebellion. P. 48. (1752)
(See also Butler)
And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
Revelation. XVI. 16. Armageddon. Correct reading is Har-Magedon, signifying Mountain of Megiddo. Authorized version, City of Megiddo. Mount Megiddo possibly Mount Carmel. The plain of Megiddo lay at its foot. Scene of many battles.
(See also Roosevelt, Whittier)
Brother Jonathan sat by the kitchen fire,
Nursin' his foot on his knee.
"It's a tumble fight they're havin' out there,
But they can't git over to me."
And Jonathan jingled the coins in his ban"
An" thanked the good God for the sea.
C. A. Richmond—Brother Jonathan.
Twelve mailed men sat drinking late,
The wine was red as blood.
Cried one, "How long then must we wait
Ere we shall thunder at the gate,
And crush the cursed brood?"
Twelve men of iron, drinking late,
Strike hands, and pledge a cup of hate:
"The Day!"
C. A. Richmond—The Day.
(See also Lissauer)
The morning came, there stood the foe;
Stark eyed them as they stood;
Few words he spoke—'twas not a time
For moralizing mood:
"See there the enemy, my boys!
Now, strong in valor's miglit,
Beat them or Betty Stark will sleep
In widowhood to-night."
J. P. Rodmen—Battle of Bennington.
To you men who, in your turn, have come together to spend and be spent in the endless crusade against wrong; to you who face the future resolute and confident;"to you who strive in a spirit of brotherhood for the betterment of our nation; to you who gird yourselves for this great new fight in the never-ending warfare for the good of mankind, I say in closing what I said in that speech in closing: "We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord."
Roosevelt—Speech, at Chicago, Progressive Convention, Aug. 5, 1912, quoting from his speech in June.
(See also Revelation)
Righteous Heaven,
In thy great day of vengeance! Blast the traitor
And his pernicious counsels, who, for wealth,
For pow'r, the pride of greatness, or revenge,
Would plunge his native land in civil wars.
Nicholas Rowe—Jane Shore. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 198.
War, the needy bankrupt's last resort.
Rowe—Pharsalia. Bk. I. 343.
He never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.
Richard Rumbold. At his execution. (16S5) See M Acaulat—History of England. Ch. V.
(The Russians] dashed on towards that thin red line tipped with steel.
W. H. Russell—The British Expedition to the Crimea. (Revised edition.) P. 187. Also in his Letters to the London Timet, WAR
Oct. 25, 1854. Speaking of the 93rd Highlanders at Balaclava. Credit for authorship of "the thin red line" claimed by Russell in a letter printed in Notes and Queries, series 8. VII. P. 191.
(See also Kinglake) I Celuy qui fuit de bonne heure Peut combattre derechef. He who flies at the right time can fight again. Satyre Menippee. (1594)
(See also Butler)
