William Gibbs McAdoo Quotes

For all we have and are, For all our children’s fate, Stand up and take the war. The Hun is at the gate!

We are a nation at war - and we should act like it.

The certain way to victory...lies in making everything on Imperial soil contribute to the war effort...combining the total material and spiritual strength of the nation...

When the state does go to war ... so too should the nation.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

I can hardly repress our press and our people too. They are thirsting for war against England.

By God, you can't fight a war unless the people support it.

Now that we are in the war [WWI], there are only two sides and every American must declare himself—American or traitor.

Remember that everybody signed up as fast as they could in World War I because they thought the war would be over by Christmas.

You must come into the war if you are to survive.

Americans will stomach long wars only when the nation’s survival is clearly at stake.

War alone can bring together the various States, and give a new importance to Congress.

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

In the beginning of the Great War, the emotions of Europe ran riot in a most horrible manner, first among the so-called 'living,' and then among the killed when they awoke.

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

From 1941 to 1945 we won a war by enlisting the whole-hearted support of all our people and all our resources.

I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.

I am strongly of the opinion that the war ought not to have taken place and that we ought not to have become parties to it, but once in it the whole future of our nation is at stake and we have no choice but do the utmost we can to secure success.

I want you all to understand that we are at war and we will stay as war until this is done. Nothing else matters. Everything is available for the pursuit of this war. Any barriers in your way, they’re gone. Any money you need, you have it. This is our only agenda.

Perhaps when the next great war comes we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him.

In a war, the hearts and minds of the people on the home front are just as important as the hearts and minds of those in the war zone.

Everyone has come to recognize that the Great War [World War I] was utter social insanity, and was a crazy war, and we had no business in it at all.

The Yanks are coming And we won’t come back till it’s over Over there!

Waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country’s elites.