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You are ordered abroad as a soldier of the King to help our French comrades against the invasion of a common enemy. You have to perform a task which will need your courage, your energy, and your patience. Remember that the honor of the British Army depends on your individual conduct. It will be your duty not only to set an example of discipline and perfect steadiness under fire, but also to maintain the most friendly relations with those whom you are helping in this struggle. Do your duty bravely. Fear God and honor the King. KITCHENER-A printed address to the British Expeditionary Force, carried by the soldiers on the Continent.

Friendship itself prompts it (Government of the U. S.) to say to the Imperial Government (Germany) that repetition by the commanders of German naval vessels of acts in contravention of those rights (neutral) must be regarded by the Government of the United States, when they affect American citizens, as deliberately unfriendly.

Secretary of War LANSING. Reply to the German Lusitania Note. July 21, 1915.

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There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.

BONAR LAW. Speech before the Great War.

I have always believed that success would be the inevitable result if the two services, the army and the navy, had fair play, and if we sent the right man to fill the right place.

AUSTIN H. LAYARD Speech in Parliament. Jan. 15, 1855.

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When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war!

NATHANIEL LEE-The Rival Queens; or, Alexander the Great. Act IV. Sc. 2.

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Art, thou hast many infamies,

But not an infamy like this.

O snap the fife and still the drum

And show the monster as she is.

R. LE GALLIENNE-The Illusion of War.

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O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me.

PRINCE LEOPOLD of ANHALT-DESSAU, according to CARLYLE-Life of Frederick the Great. Bk. XV. Ch. XIV.

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The ballot is stronger than the bullet. LINCOLN. (1856)

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One month too late.

VON LINSINGEN's remark when told of Italy's declaration of war against Austria in Great War.

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To arms! to arms! ye brave!

Th' avenging sword unsheathe,

March on! march on! all hearts resolved
On victory or death!

JOSEPH ROUGET DE LISLE-The Marseilles
Hymn. 7th stanza by Du Bois. See Figaro,
Literary Supplement, Aug. 7, 1908.

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At the Captain's mess, in the Banquet-hall,
Sat feasting the officers, one and all—
Like a sabre-blow, like the swing of a sail,
One raised his glass, held high to hail,
Sharp snapped like the stroke of a rudder's play,
Spoke three words only: "To the day!"
ERNEST LISSAUER Hassgesang gegen Eng-
land. (Song of Hate against England.)
(See also RICHMOND)

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Ostendite modo bellum, pacem habebitis.
You need only a show of war to have peace.
LIVY-History. VI. 18. 7. Same idea in
DION CHRYSOSTOM-De Regn. Orat. I.
SYRUS-Maxims. 465.

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Justum est bellum, quibus necessarium; et pia arma, quibus nulla nisi in armis relinquitur opes. To those to whom war is necessary it is just; and a resort to arms is righteous in those to whom no means of assistance remain except by arms.

LIVY-History. Bk. IX. 1.

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God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice their hearts, to exalt their vision, to strengthen their faith, and if we had stood by when two little nations (Belgium and Servia) were being crushed and broken by the brutal hands of barbarians, our shame would have rung down the everlasting ages.

LLOYD GEORGE-Speech at Queen's Hall. Sept., 1914.

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The stern hand of Fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the everlasting things that matter for a nation-the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honour, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the pinnacles of Sacrifice, pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven. We shall descend into the valley again; but as long as the men and women of this generation last, they will carry in their hearts the image of these mighty peaks, whose foundations are not shaken, though Europe rock and sway in the convulsions of a great war.

LLOYD GEORGE-Speech at Queen's Hall. Sept., 1914.

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Too late in moving here, too late in arriving there, too late in coming to this decision, too late in starting with enterprises, too late in preparing. In this war the footsteps of the allied forces have been dogged by the mocking specter of Too Late! and unless we quicken our movements, damnation will fall on the sacred cause for which so much gallant blood has flowed.

LLOYD GEORGE-Speech, in the House of Commons. Dec. 20, 1915.

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The last £100,000,000 will win.

LLOYD GEORGE, when Chancellor of the Exchequer, at the beginning of the war. 1914. See Everybody's Magazine. Jan., 1918. P. 8.

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Is it, O man, with such discordant noises,
With such accursed instruments as these,
Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices,
And jarrest the celestial harmonies?
LONGFELLOW-Arsenal at Springfield. St. 8.

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Ultima ratio regum.

Last argument of kings. [Cannon.] LOUIS XIV ordered this engraved on cannon. Removed by the National Assembly, Aug. 19, 1790. Found on cannon in Mantua. (1613) On Prussian guns of today. Motto for pieces of ordnance in use as early as 1613. BUCHMANN-Geflügelte Wörte. Ultima razon de reges. (War.) The ultimate reason of kings. CALDERON. Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings. FREDERICK THE GREAT to his brother HENRY. April 21, 1759.

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Ez fer war, I call it murder,

Ther you hev it plain and flat;

I don't want to go no furder

Than my Testyment fer that.

LOWELL-The Biglow Papers. No. 1.

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It don't seem hardly right, John,
When both my hands was full,
To stump me to a fight, John,
Your cousin, too, John Bull!

Ole Uncle S. sez he, "I guess
We know it now," sez he,
"The lion's paw is all the law,
According to J. B.,

That's fit for you an' me."

LOWELL-The Biglow Papers. Jonathan to John. St. 1.

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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.

LOWELL-The Biglow Papers. No. 3.

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Not but wut abstract war is horrid,

I sign to thet with all my heart,

But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart. LOWELL-Biglow Papers. No. 7.

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The Campbells are comin'.

ROBERT T. S. LOWELL-The Relief of Lucknow. Poem on same story written by HENRY MORFORD, ALEX. MACLAGAN.

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I beg that the small steamers spared if possible, or else sunk without a trace being left. (Spurlos versenkt.)

COUNT KARL VON LUXBURG, Chargé d'Affaires at Buenos Ayres. Telegram to the Berlin Foreign Office, May 19, 1917. Also same July 9, 1917, referring to Argentine ships. Cablegrams disclosed by Sec. Lansing as sent from the German Legation in Buenos Ayres by way of the Swedish Legation to Berlin.

If neutrals were destroyed so that they disappeared without leaving any trace, terror would soon keep seamen and travelers away from the danger zones.

PROF. OSWALD FLAMM in the Berlin Woche.
Cited in N. Y. Times, May 15, 1917.

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HANOTAUX, in Contemporary France, says that MacMahon denied this. MARQUIS DE CASTELLANE claimed the phrase in the Revue Hebdomadaire, May, 1908. Contradicted by L'Éclair, which quoted a letter by GEN. BIDDULPH to GERMAIN BAPST, in which GEN. BIDDULPH tells that MACMAHON said to him "Que j'y suis, et que j'y reste."

And, though the warrior's sun has set,
Its light shall linger round us yet,
Bright, radiant, blest.

DON JORGE MANRIQUE-Coplas De Manrique.
Last lines. Trans. by LONGFELLOW.

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Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre,
Mironton, mironton, mirontaine,
Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre,
Ne sait quand reviendra.

Marbrough (or Marlebrouck) S'en va-t-en Guerre. Old French Song. Attributed to Mme. de Sévigné. Found in Rondes avec Jeux et Petites Chansons traditionnelles, Pub. by AUGENER. Said to refer to Charles, Third Duke of Marlborough's unsuccessful expedition against Cherbourg or Malplaquet, probably the latter. (1709) See KING'S Classical Quotations. Air probably sung by the Crusaders of Godfrey de Bouillon, known in America "We won't go home until morning." Sung today in the East, tradition giving it that the ancestors of the Arabs learned it at the battle of Mansurah, April 5, 1250. The same appears in a Basque Pastorale; also in Chansons de Geste. Air known to the Egyptians.

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England expects every officer and man to do his duty this day.

NELSON Signal, Oct. 21, 1805, to the fleet before the battle of Trafalgar. As reported in the London Times, Dec. 26, 1805. England expects that every man will do his duty. As reported by WILLIAM PRYCE CUNBY, First Lieut. of the Bellerophon. The claim is that Nelson gave the order "Nelson confides," which was changed to "England expects." See Notes and Queries, Series VI, IX, 261.283; also Nov. 4, 1905. P. 370.

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For bragging time was over and fighting time

was come.

HENRY NEWBOLT-Hawke.

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A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers; There was lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears.

C. E. S. NORTON (Lady Stirling-Maxwell) -Bingen on the Rhine.

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March to the battle-field, The foe is now before us;

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These are the times that try men's souls. The Summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

THOMAS PAINE-The Crisis.

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From the Rio Grande's waters to the icy lakes of Maine,

Let all exult, for we have met the enemy again. Beneath their stern old mountains we have met them in their pride;

And rolled from Buena Vista back the battle's bloody tide,

Where the enemy came surging swift like the Mississippi's flood,

And the Reaper, Death, with strong arms swung his sickle red with blood.

Santa Anna boasted loudly that before two hours were past

His Lancers through Saltillo should pursue us fierce and fast.

On comes his solid infantry, line marching after line.

Lo! their great standards in the sun like sheets of silver shine.

GEN. ALBERT PIKE-Battle of Buena Vista.

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If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms,-never! never! never!

WILLIAM PITT the Elder. Nov. 18, 1777.

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He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war.

PLUTARCH-Life of Cleomenes. 27. (See also CICERO)

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Sylla proceeded by persuasion, not by arms. PLUTARCH-Lysander and Sylla Compared.

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It is the province of kings to bring wars about; Attributed to GENERAL JOHN JOSEPH PER- it is the province of God to end them. CARDINAL POLE-To Henry VIII.

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SHING.

(1918)

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She saw her sons with purple death expire, Her sacred domes involved in rolling fire, A dreadful series of intestine wars, Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars. POPE-Windsor Forest. L. 323.

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