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 842 WAR

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = All quiet along the Potomac. Proverbial in 1861-62. Supposed to have originated with Gen. McClellan. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Bret Hahte) She is a wall of brass; You shall not pass! You shall not pass! Spring up like Summer grass, Surge at her, mass on mass, Still shall you break like glass, Splinter and break like shivered glass, But pass? You shall not pass! Germans, you shall not, shall not pass! God's hand has written on the wall of brass— You shall not pass! You shall not pass! Harold Begbhs—You Shall Not Pass. In N. Y. Tribune, July 2, 1916. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Bates}}) | topic = War | page = 842 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Carry on, carry on, for the men and boys are But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the women carry on. Janet Begbie—Carry On. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = War | page = 842 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks! Bekanger—Les Gauhis et Francois. C. L. Bett's trans. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = War | page = 842 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized. Bernhardi—Germany and the next War. Ch. I. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = War | page = 842 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = War is a biological necessity of the first importance, a regulative element in the life of mankind which cannot be dispensed with. . . . But it is not only a biological law but a moral obligation and, as such, an indispensable factor in civilization. Bernhardi—Germany and the next War. Ch.I. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = War | page = 842 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Our next war will be fought for the highest interests of our country and of mankind. This will invest it with importance in the world's history. "World power or downfall" will be our rallying cry. Bernhardi—Germany and the next War. Ch. VII. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = War | page = 842 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = We Germans have a far greater and more urgent duty towards civilization to perform than the Great Asiatic Power. We, like the Japanese, can only fulfil it by the sword. Bernhardi—Germany and the next War. Ch. XIII. WAR L'affaire Herzegovinienne ne vaut pas les os d'un fusilier pomSranien. The Herzegovina question is not worth the bones of a Pomeranian fusileer. Bismarck, (1875) during the struggle between the Christian provinces and Turkey, which led to the Russo-Turkish war. Another version is "The Eastern Question is not worth," etc. | author = | work = | place = | seealso = See also variation of same by {{sc|Bismarck}} under {{sc|Art}}. | note = | topic = War | page = 842 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Lieber Spitzkugeln als Spitzreden. Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches. Blsmarck—Speech, (1850), relative to Manteuffel's dealings with Austria during the insurrection of the People of Hesse -Cassel. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Gascoigne}}) | topic = War | page = 842 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ich sehe in unserm Bundesverhaltnisse ein Gebrechen Preussens, welches wir fruher oder spater ferro et igne werden heilen mussen. I see in our relations with our alliance a fault of Prussia's, which we must cure sooner or later ferro et igne. Bismarck—Letter to Baron von Schledjitz. May 12, 1859. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = War | page = 842 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = [The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron. Bismarck—Declaration to the Prussian House of Delegates. Sept. 30, 1862. Same idea in Schenkendorf—Das Eiserne Kreuz. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Quintilian, Swinburne}}, also {{sc|Arndt}} under {{sc|Bravery}}) | topic = War | page = 842 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = What a place to plunder! Field Marshal von Blucher's comment on viewing London from St. Paul's, after the Peace Banquet at Oxford, 1814. Same idea in Malcolm—Sketches of Persia. P. 232. Thackeray—Four Georges. George I, says: "The bold old Reiter looked down from St. Paul's and sighed out, 'Was fur Plunder!' The German women plundered; the German secretaries plundered ; the German cooks and intendants plundered; even Mustapha and Mahomet, the German negroes, had a share of the booty." The German quoted would be correctly translated "what rubbish!" Bliicher, therefore, has been either misquoted or mistranslated. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = War | page = 842 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = It is magnificent, but it is not war. General Pierre Bosquet. On the Charge of the Light Brigade. Attributed also to Marshal Canrobert. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = War | page = 842 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He who did well in war just earns the right To begin doing well in peace. Robert Browning—Lwria. Act II. L. 354. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = War | page = 842 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities. W. J. Bryan—To the German government, when Secretary of State. European War Series of Depart, of State. No. I. P. 54,