“War was a bloody, dirty, trivial business, a series of scuffles for muddy ditches.”— Edmund Blunden
“Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.”— Joan of Arc
“Once we suffer a battlefield defeat, we shall have lost everything. We’ll have suffered a major setback to our prestige, and the consequences of this may be paid for decades.”— George Ball
“The war in Vietnam is the most dangerous of all our external undertakings. It is a war we cannot win.”— George Ball
“We had a bomb which had the destructive power of 20,000 tonnes of TNT. It was a frightening thing.”— Mark Oliphant
“It is not a question of whether we will win or lose. It is a question of how long it will take.”— John Abizaid
“It is my belief that it is only by a German victory that the British Empire can be preserved.”— John Amery