
Volume 1, p. 167
The Prophets (1962)
Volume 1, p. 167
The Prophets (1962)
“God is on your side? Is He a Conservative? The Devil's on my side, he's a good Communist.”
Said to Winston Churchill in Tehran, November 1943, as quoted in Fallen Eagle: The Last Days of the Third Reich (1995) by Robin Cross, p. 21
Contemporary witnesses
“The words fill my head, and fall to the floor, that if God's on our side, he'll stop the next war.”
Song lyrics, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964), With God On Our Side
“It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.”
On dit que Dieu est toujours pour les gros bataillons.
Letter to François-Louis-Henri Leriche (6 February 1770)
In his Notebooks (c.1735-c.1750), Voltaire wrote: God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
Citas
“The laws are with us, and God on our side.”
On the Rise and Progress of Popular Disaffection, Essay viii, Vol. ii (1817).
Source: Radical Christian Discipleship (2012), p. 41
“I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky!”
See, for example, Albert D. Richardson (1865), The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape. The quotation is based on a comment by Rev. Moncure D. Conway about the progress of the Civil War.
It is evident that the worthy President would like to have God on his side: he must have Kentucky.
Moncure D. Conway (1862), The Golden Hour
Misattributed
Medal of Peace acceptance
Context: This is the greatest honour I have ever received in my life. Peace has always been my greatest concern. Yet in my childhood I learned to love it. My mother—an exceptional, brilliant woman — used to speak to me about it when I was still a child, because in those years there were also a lot of wars. What is more, I am a Catalan. Today, a province of Spain. But what has been Catalonia? Catalonia has been the greatest nation in the world. I will tell you why. Catalonia has had the first parliament, much before England. Catalonia had the first United Nations. All the authorities of Catalonia in the Eleventh Century met in a city of France, at that time Catalonia, to speak about peace, at the Eleventh Century. Peace in the world and against, against, against war, the inhumanity of the wars. So I am so happy, so happy, to be with you today. That is why the United Nations, which works solely towards the peace ideal, is in my heart, because anything to do with peace goes straight to my heart.
Source: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time