34 Quotes About World-war-1

In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only those who have never studied or experienced the realities of war, but also professional soldiers frequently fall into the error. But the principles of warfare as I learned them at West Point remain unchanged.

His soldiers call Major-General John Joseph Pershing (accent on the first syllable) "Black Jack" when he is not near. The man is an erect, soldierly officer of about six feet, a strict disciplinarian, and one of the hardest workers in the Army.

In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes.

Overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time ... There now began the greatest and most unforgettable time of my earthly existence.

No commander was ever privileged to lead a finer force; no commander ever derived greater inspiration from the performance of his troops.

If war was once a chivalrous duel, it is now a dastardly slaughter.

I felt then, as I feel now, that the politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder.

One of the surprising realities about the Western Front was that intense action and peril were surrounded by long periods of having very little to do.

. Leaving the city behind, they entered the wasted countryside. Large shell holes, jagged stumps of full-grown trees, and gas residue clinging to puddles all pointed to the power of modern warfare. No living thing remained. The odor of rotting human corpses filled what was left of the woods: the dead wearing the uniforms of France, Germany, and the US.