It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engag…

- Philip Gibbs

If there is anything I've learned, is that piety is smarter than hate, that mercy is preferable even to justice itself, that if you go around the wor…

- Philip Gibbs

At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves.

- Philip Gibbs

There is poetry in a pork chop to a hungry man.

- Philip Gibbs

During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Fron…

- Philip Gibbs

I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, an…

- Philip Gibbs

But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

- Philip Gibbs

We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rottin…

- Philip Gibbs

In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly over it.

- Philip Gibbs