Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
"Hitler and His Choice", The Strand Magazine (November 1935).
The 1930s
“He who is the author of a war, lets loose the whole contagion of hell, and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.”
The Crisis No. V http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3741/3741-h/3741-h.htm#link2H_4_0009 <br class="br">1770s, The American Crisis (1776&ndash;1783)
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John Pilger (1939) Australian journalist
John Pilger, This much i know http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2005/nov/13/pressandpublishing.observermagazine, The Observer, 13 November 2005
George MacDonald Fraser book Quartered Safe Out Here
Source: Quartered Safe Out Here (1992), p. 141.
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Knocked Out Loaded (1986), Brownsville Girl (with Sam Shepard)
Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist
"To Lucasta on Going to the War — For the Fourth Time"
Fairies and Fusiliers (1917)
Context: Let statesmen bluster, bark and bray,
And so decide who started
This bloody war, and who's to pay,
But he must be stout-hearted,
Must sit and stake with quiet breath,
Playing at cards with Death.
Don't plume yourself he fights for you;
It is no courage, love, or hate,
But let us do the things we do;
It's pride that makes the heart be great;
It is not anger, no, nor fear —
Lucasta he's a Fusilier,
And his pride keeps him here.
Thomas Boston (1676–1732) Scottish church leader, theologian and philosopher
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 207.
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