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842 WAR

All quiet along the Potomac they say
Except now and then a stray picket
Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro,
By a rifleman hid in the thicket.

Ethel Lynn BeersThe Picket Guard. Claimed by Lamas. Fontaine.


All quiet along the Potomac.
Proverbial in 1861-62. Supposed to have
originated with Gen. McClellan.
 | seealso = (See also Bret Hahte)
She is a wall of brass;
You shall not pass! You shall not pass!
Spring up like Summer grass,
Surge at her, mass on mass,
Still shall you break like glass,
Splinter and break like shivered glass,
But pass?
You shall not pass!
Germans, you shall not, shall not pass!
God's hand has written on the wall of brass—
You shall not pass! You shall not pass!
Harold Begbhs—You Shall Not Pass. In
N. Y. Tribune, July 2, 1916.
 


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 | text = <poem>Carry on, carry on, for the men and boys are
But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the women
carry on.
Janet Begbie—Carry On.


Gaily! gaily! close our ranks!
Arm! Advance!
Hope of France!
Gaily! gaily! close our ranks!
Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!
Bekanger—Les Gauhis et Francois. C. L.
Bett's trans.


The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating
law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized.
Bernhardi—Germany and the next War.
Ch. I.


War is a biological necessity of the first importance, a regulative element in the life of mankind
which cannot be dispensed with. . . . But
it is not only a biological law but a moral obligation and, as such, an indispensable factor in
civilization.
Bernhardi—Germany and the next War.
Ch.I.


Our next war will be fought for the highest interests of our country and of mankind. This
will invest it with importance in the world's history. "World power or downfall" will be our
rallying cry.
Bernhardi—Germany and the next War.
Ch. VII.


We Germans have a far greater and more urgent duty towards civilization to perform than
the Great Asiatic Power. We, like the Japanese,
can only fulfil it by the sword.
Bernhardi—Germany and the next War.
Ch. XIII.
WAR
L'affaire Herzegovinienne ne vaut pas les os
d'un fusilier pomSranien.
The Herzegovina question is not worth the
bones of a Pomeranian fusileer.
Bismarck, (1875) during the struggle between the Christian provinces and Turkey,
which led to the Russo-Turkish war.
Another version is "The Eastern Question
is not worth," etc.

See also variation of same by Bismarck under Art.


Lieber Spitzkugeln als Spitzreden.
Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
Blsmarck—Speech, (1850), relative to Manteuffel's dealings with Austria during the
insurrection of the People of Hesse -Cassel.
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 | text = <poem>Ich sehe in unserm Bundesverhaltnisse ein
Gebrechen Preussens, welches wir fruher oder
spater ferro et igne werden heilen mussen.
I see in our relations with our alliance a
fault of Prussia's, which we must cure sooner
or later ferro et igne.
Bismarck—Letter to Baron von Schledjitz.
May 12, 1859.


[The great questions of the day] are not
decided by speeches and majority votes, but by
blood and iron.
Bismarck—Declaration to the Prussian House
of Delegates. Sept. 30, 1862. Same idea in
Schenkendorf—Das Eiserne Kreuz.
 | seealso = (See also Quintilian, Swinburne, also Arndt under Bravery)
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 | text = <poem>What a place to plunder!
Field Marshal von Blucher's comment
on viewing London from St. Paul's, after the
Peace Banquet at Oxford, 1814. Same idea
in Malcolm—Sketches of Persia. P. 232.
Thackeray—Four Georges. George I, says:
"The bold old Reiter looked down from St.
Paul's and sighed out, 'Was fur Plunder!'
The German women plundered; the German
secretaries plundered ; the German cooks and
intendants plundered; even Mustapha and
Mahomet, the German negroes, had a share
of the booty." The German quoted would
be correctly translated "what rubbish!"
Bliicher, therefore, has been either misquoted or mistranslated.


It is magnificent, but it is not war.
General Pierre Bosquet. On the Charge
of the Light Brigade. Attributed also to
Marshal Canrobert.


He who did well in war just earns the right
To begin doing well in peace.
Robert Browning—Lwria. Act II. L. 354.


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| text = <poem>The Government of the United States would 

be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities. W. J. Bryan—To the German government, when Secretary of State. European War Series of Depart, of State. No. I. P. 54,