Portal:World War I/Selected quote
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"You will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees."
- — Kaiser Wilhelm II, August 1914
The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
- — Edward Grey, July 1914
"There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today."
- — David Beatty, 31 May 1916
"My centre is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking."
- — Ferdinand Foch, September 1914
"It is easier to make war than make peace."
- — Georges Clemenceau, 20 July 1919
"I look upon him as the greatest criminal known for having plunged the world into war."
- — George V of the United Kingdom, November 1918
"It must be a peace without victory...Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last."
- — Woodrow Wilson, 22 January 1917
"Our life here is truly hellish. Fortunately, my soldiers are very brave and tougher than the enemy. What is more, their private beliefs make it easier to carry out orders which send them to their death. They see only two supernatural outcomes: victory for the faith or martyrdom. Do you know what the second means? It is to go straight to heaven. There, the houris, God's most beautiful women, will meet them and will satisfy their desires for all eternity. What great happiness!"
- — Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 20 July 1917
"We will support Britain to the last man and the last shilling."
- — Andrew Fisher, August 1914
"Kill every Armenian man, woman, and child without concern."
- — Mehmed Talat Pasha, 24 April 1915
