or agony and spoil
Of nations beat to dust,
For poisoned air and tortured soil
And cold, commanded lust,
And every secret woe
The shuddering waters saw—
Willed and fulfilled by high and low—
Let them relearn the Law.
For heathen heart that puts her trust
In reeking tube and iron shard—
All valiant dust that builds on dust,
And guarding calls not Thee to guard—
For frantic boast and foolish word,
Thy mercy on Thy People, Lord!
Kipling—Recessional.
You are ordered abroad as a soldier of the
King to help our French comrades against the
invasion of a common enemy. You have to perform a task which will need your courage, your
energy, and your patience. Remember that the
honor of the British Army depends on your individual conduct. It will be your duty not only
to set an example of discipline and perfect steadiness under fire, but also to maintain the most
friendly relations with those whom you are helping in this struggle. ... Do your duty
bravely. Fear God and honor the King.
Kitchener—A printed address to the British
Expeditionary Force, carried by the soldiers
on the Continent.
Friendship itself prompts it (Government of the U. S.) to say to the Imperial Government
(Germany) that repetition by the commanders
of German naval vessels of acts in contravention
of those rights (neutral) must be regarded by
the Government of the United States, when they
affect American citizens, as deliberately unfriendly.
Secretary of War Lansing. Reply to the German Lusitania Note. July 21, 1915.
There is no such thing as an inevitable war.
If war comes it will be from failure of human
wisdom.
Bonab Law. Speech before the Great War.
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I I have always believed that success would be
the inevitable result if the two services, the army
and the navy, had fair play, and if we sent the
right man to fill the right place.
Attsttn H. Latard—Speech in Parliament.
Jan. 15, 1855.
I T
When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug
if war!
I Nathaniel Lee—The Rival Queens; or, AlexI ander the Great. Act IV. Sc. 2.
kt, thou hast many infamies,
lit not an infamy like this.
Gsnap the fife and still the drum
Ad show the monster as she is.
p. Le Galltenne—The Illusion of War.
b, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me.
Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau, according to Carlyle—Life of Frederick the Great.
Bk.XV. Ch.XIV.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Lincoln. (1856)
One month too late.
Von Linsingen's remark when told of Italy's
declaration of war against Austria in Great
War.
To arms! to arms! ye brave!
Th' avenging sword unsheathe,
March on! march on! all hearts resolved
On victory or death!
Joseph Rouget de Lisle—The Marseilles
Hymn. 7th stanza by DuBois. See Figaro,
Literary Supplement, Aug. 7, 1908.
At the Captain's mess, in the Banquet-hall,
Sat feasting the officers, one and all—
Like a sabre-blow, like the swing of a sail,
One raised his glass, held high to hail,
Sharp snapped like the stroke of a rudder's play,
Spoke three words only: "To the day!"
Ernest Lissauer—Hassgesang gegen England. (Song of Hate against England.)
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You need only a show of war to have peace.
Livy—History. VI. 18. 7. Same idea in
Dion Chrysostom—De Regn. Orat. I.
Syrus—Maxims. 465.
Justum est bellum, quibus necessarium; et pia
arma, quibus nulla nisi in armis relinquitur opes.
To those to whom war is necessary it is just;
and a resort to arms is righteous in those to
whom no means of assistance remain except
by arms.
Livy—History. Bk. IX. 1.
God has chosen little nations as the vessels by
which He carries His choicest wines to the lips
of humanity to rejoice their hearts, to exalt their
vision, to strengthen their faith, and if we had
stood by when two little nations (Belgium and
Servia) were being crushed and broken by the
brutal hands of barbarians, our shame would
have rung down the everlasting ages.
Lloyd George—Speech at Queen's Hall.
Sept., 1914.
The stern hand of Fate has scourged us to an
elevation where we can see the everlasting things
that matter for a nation—the great peaks we had
forgotten, of Honour, Duty, Patriotism, and clad
in glittering white, the pinnacles of Sacrifice,
pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven. We
shall descend into the valley again; but as long
as the men and women of this generation last,
they will carry in their hearts the image of these
mighty peaks, whose foundations are not shaken,
though Europe rock and sway in the convulsions
of a great war.
Lloyd George—Speech at Queen's Hall.
Sept., 1914.
