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Just for a word -- 'neutrality', a word which in wartime has so often been disregarded, just for a scrap of paper -- Great Britain is going to make war.
- Theobald von Bethman-Hollweg, letter to Sir Edward Grey, 1914
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The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in out time
- British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey, 1914
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(Of the Battle of the Marne, 1914) My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
- Marshal Ferdinand Foch, quoted in Aston, Biography of Foch (1929)
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When you march into France, let the last man on the right brush the channel with his sleeve
- Count Alfred von Schlieffen
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Battles are lost and won by generals, not by the rank and file
- Marshal Ferdinand Foch
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President Wilson was a self-righteous professor turned politician, with a mind that has been compared to the soil of New England -- 'essentially barren but highly cultivated.'
- D.J. Goodspeed, The German Wars: 1914-1945
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There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.
- Admiral Sir David Beatty, after the destruction of the HMS Queen Mary at the Battle of Jutland, May 1916
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If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.
- Rudyard Kipling, 'Common Form' (1919)
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