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

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

(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)

When you march into France, let the last man on the right brush the channel with his sleeve
- Count Alfred von Schlieffen

Battles are lost and won by generals, not by the rank and file
- Marshal Ferdinand Foch

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

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

If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.
- Rudyard Kipling, 'Common Form' (1919)