
Source: A Heap o' Livin' (1916), Our Duty to Our Flag, stanzas 1-2, p. 59.
"The Next War"
Context: Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!
We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum.
No soldier's paid to kick against His powers.
We laughed, — knowing that better men would come,
And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags
He wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags.
Source: A Heap o' Livin' (1916), Our Duty to Our Flag, stanzas 1-2, p. 59.
“Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.”
This is almost always attributed to US Ambassador Francis Meehan http://www.nndb.com/people/060/000121694/, though without citations, and only very rarely to Patton.
Misattributed
Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 112.
1970s, Forces interview (1973)
Speech in Leeds (13 March 1925), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 63-64.
1925