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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = We seemed to see our flag unfurled, Our champion waiting in his place For the last battle of the world, The Armageddon of the race. Whittier—Rantoul. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Revelation) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = War | page = 859 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. | author = Oscar Wilde | work = Intentions. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = War | page = 859 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I will die in the last ditch. (Dyke.) William op Orange. Hume—History of England. Ch.XLIII. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = War | page = 859 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = War | page = 859 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = War | page = 859 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. | author = | work = | place = | note = | seealso = (See also {{sc|Gascoigne}}) | topic = War | page = 859 }}