
“Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.”
Dispatch to General Henry W. Halleck (1 August 1864), from City Point, Virginia.
1860s
2010s, 2016, Letter to America's Enemies (2016)
“Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.”
Dispatch to General Henry W. Halleck (1 August 1864), from City Point, Virginia.
1860s
“The feats of our brave troops are wonderful, God gave them success.”
May He continue to help them to peace with honour, & the victory over Juda & Antichrist in British garb.
Letter to Margarethe Landgraffin von Hessen (20 April 1941), quoted in John C. G. Röhl, Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile 1900-1941 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), p. 1262
1940s
“The point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything”
interview on WBAI, January 1992 http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/interviews/9201-propaganda.html.
Quotes 1990s, 1990-1994
Context: The point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything... that's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody is going to be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that's the one you're not allowed to talk about.
“We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.”
Hindu Sepoy in France
Epitaphs of the War (1914-1918) (1918)
during address to the United States Naval Academy, November 30, 2005. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10253079/
2000s, 2005
“The God we've been praying to is deaf to our words and only responds to our actions.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 46
Montreal Gazette, April 2, 2003: On the Iraq war.
2003
“Our fate lies in your hands, to you we pray
For an indulgent hearing of our play”
A Prologue (1939) to Oliver Goldsmith's The Good Natur'd Man (1768).
Context: Our fate lies in your hands, to you we pray
For an indulgent hearing of our play;
Laugh if you can, or failing that, give vent
In hissing fury to your discontent;
Applause we crave, from scorn we take defence
But have no armour 'gainst indifference.