Kirby Page (1890–1957) American clergyman
"What is War?" (1924)
The New Central European Observer, published 1948
Kirby Page (1890–1957) American clergyman
"What is War?" (1924)
Michael Burleigh (1955) American historian and writer
Source: The Third Reich: A New History (2000), p. 430
Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) American journalist and radio broadcaster
Dorothy Thompson’s Political Guide: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
Source: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
pp. 33-34
Konrad Heiden (1901–1966) German journalist and historian
Source: Der Fuehrer, Hitler’s Rise to Power (1944), p. 501
“Wars were not made by young men, he thought, yet they had to fight them.”
Douglas Reeman (1924–2017) British author
A Tradition of Victory, Cap 14 "The Toast is Victory!"
“Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”
Augustus (-63–14 BC) founder of Julio-Claudian dynasty and first emperor of the Roman Empire
Alexander the Great (-356–-323 BC) King of Macedon
Addressing his troops prior to the Battle of Issus, as quoted in Anabasis Alexandri by Arrian Book II, 7
Context: Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service — but how different is their cause from ours! They will be fighting for pay — and not much of at that; we, on the contrary, shall fight for Greece, and our hearts will be in it. As for our foreign troops — Thracians, Paeonians, Illyrians, Agrianes — they are the best and stoutest soldiers in Europe, and they will find as their opponents the slackest and softest of the tribes of Asia. And what, finally, of the two men in supreme command? You have Alexander, they — Darius!