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102 Great War quotes by 68 unique authors

Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an… — George Bernard Shaw
This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged. — Unknown Author
We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than… — H. H. Asquith
Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly. — Wilfred Owen
No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest… — Unknown Author
When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile… — H. H. Asquith
As a matter of fact we have to take special precautions during a battle to post police, to prevent more unwounded men than are necessary… — Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue. — David Lloyd George
In the mind of all the English soldiers there is absolutely no hate for the Germans, but a kind of brotherly though slightly comtemptuous kindness… — Ivor Gurney
The marvel is that we did not all die of cold. As a matter of fact, only one of my party actually froze to death… — Wilfred Owen
The home front is always underrated by Generals in the field. And yet that is where the Great War was won and lost. The Russian,… — David Lloyd George
As we take stock on the morrow of victory, we shall find that nothing of real value to the human race has been destroyed. Our… — Horatio Bottomley
Don't believe stories which you see in the papers about troops asking as a special privilege not to be relieved. We stick it, at all… — Unknown Author
So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war of defence against a menacing,… — Harold Lasswell
However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans. — Rudyard Kipling
After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to… — Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
The cries of the wounded had much diminished now, and as we staggered down the road, the reason was only too apparent, for the water… — Unknown Author
I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no… — Vera Brittain
Some men of the line regiment who had appeared on our right started running back. I shouted out to them to halt, but they took… — Unknown Author
No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness. — Wilfred Owen
At 8 o'clock in the morning a dense throng of workers - almost 10,000 - assembled in the square, which the police had already occupied… — Unknown Author
The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of the wounded, and… — Erich Maria Remarque
As a result of continuous work with these highly toxic substances, our minds were so numbed that we no longer had any scruples about the… — Otto Hahn
Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to yellow, to yellow-green,… — Ernest Hemingway
I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great. — Ernie Pyle

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