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Either this or upon this.

We will fight them in the air, land and sea, and their aggression will achieve nothing but failure.

Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists, nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of the Slavs will turn us from our aim of protecting and extending German influence all the world over.

Oft he that doth abide Is cause of his own paine, But he that flieth in good tide Perhaps may fight again.

He who flies at the right time can fight again.

It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.

Both Regiments or none.

'Twas in Trafalgar's bay The saucy Frenchmen lay.

My voice is still for war.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow.

Fighting men are the city's fortress.

Fifty-four forty, or fight.

"I cannot bear it!" said the pewter soldier. "I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers."

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?

Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide another, that he may retire the sooner out of Europe.

We make war that we may live in peace.

If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

They shall not pass till the stars be darkened: Two swords crossed in front of the Hun; Never a groan but God has harkened, Counting their cruelties one by one.

O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the pleurisy of people.