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The first bullet struck the wife of the Archduke, the Archduchess Sofia, in the abdomen... She died instantly.
The second bullet struck the Archduke close to the heart. He uttered only one word,'Sofia' - a call to his stricken wife. Then his head fell back and he collapsed. he died almost instantly |
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| the future belongs to peace |
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| Otto von Bismarck - germany |
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| I shall not live to see the Great War, but you will see it, and it will start in the east |
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All the long years of my reign, my colleagues, the monarchs of Europe, have paid no attention to what i have to say
"If my grandmother had been alive, she would never have allowed it!" |
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| the lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime |
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| German soldier Richard Schmieder |
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| The blue French cloth mingled with the German grey upon the ground, and in some places the bodies were piled up so high that one could take cover from shell-fire behind them. The noise was so terrific that orders had to be shouted by each man into the ear of the next. And whenever there was a momentary lull in the tumult of battle and the groand of the woundd, one heard, highup in the blue sky, the joyful song of birds! Birds singing just as they do at home min the spring-time! it was enough to tear the heart out of one's body |
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| I suppose i resembled a kind of fish wiht my mouth open gasping for air. It seemed as if my lungs were gradually shutting up and my heart pounded away in my ears like the beat of a drum.... to get air into my lungs was real agony |
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Over there, over there,
send the word, send the word over there,
that the Yanks are coming,
The Yanks are coming...
We'll be over, we're comming over
over there |
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| Standing as I do in view of God and Eternity, I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness toward anyone |
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You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
who cheer when soldier lads marc by,
sneak home and pray you'll never know
the hell where youth and laughter go |
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we have no selfish ends to serve... to make the world safe for democracy... war to end war
tell me what is right, and i'll fight for it
peace without victory |
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Although they would no doubt have welcomed the idea of a league of nations, Roland and Edward certainly had not died in order that Celmenceau should outwit Lloyd George, and both of them bamboozle President Wilson, and all three combine to make the beaten, blockaded enemy pay the coast of the war
"...stopping hemorrhages, replacing intestines, and draining and reinserting innumerable rubber tubes" with "gruesome human remnants heaped on the floor." |
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| Mr. Wilson bores me with his Fourteen Points, why God Almighty has only ten! |
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| They are constantly frightening the emperor with threats of revolution, and here, - you see it yourself- we need merely to show ourselves and at once their hearts are ours |
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"In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing fly
Scarce hear amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields." |
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| "One out of every four men who went out to the World War did not come back again, and of those who came back, many are maimed and blind and some are mad." |
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| The French's cry against German forces at Verdun |
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| "... to reconquer the lost territory in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona.." |
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| Letter from the front (Russian) |
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"Mr. War Minister!
We, soldiers from various regiments,... ask you to end the war and its bloodshed at any cost.... If this is not done, then believe us when we say that we will take our weapons and head out for our own hearths to save our fathers, mothers, wives, and children from death by starvation (which is nigh). And if we cannot save them, then we'd rather die with them in our native lands then be killed, poisoned, or frozen to death somewhere and cast into the earth like a dog." |
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| The shouts from Russian women in March 1917 |
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Peace, land, Bread
"Long live the world-wide Socialist revolution!"
"We shall now occupy ourselves in Russia in building up a proletarian socialist state."
"Comrade Stalin... has concentrated an enormous power in his hands; and I am not sure that he always knows how to use that power with sufficient caution." |
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| American journalist on an international relief team in Russia |
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| "...no one stirred from the little wooden house... where Russian families were hibernating and waiting for death." |
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