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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers read more
The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away with. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time.
'Twas in Trafalgar's bay
The saucy Frenchmen lay.
'Twas in Trafalgar's bay
The saucy Frenchmen lay.
If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two
sentences. In the first place, read more
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.
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so read more
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
