Great Throughts Treasury

"The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one another. No country can escape looking beyond its boundaries to find the source of the currents which influence how it can live with others."

"Events are not a matter of chance. "

"What was taken by force, can only be restored by force. "

"People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny."

"If anyone thinks we have become tired, let me say that we are a struggling nation, a fighting nation, a patient nation."

"I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me."

"The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing."

"There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire."

"They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood."

"He who cannot support himself, cannot take his own decision."

"We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire."