Quotes on World War 1

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold!

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.

The eyes of the world are upon you.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

The world must know what happened, and never forget.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.