Frank B. Kellogg Quotes

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

Out of the trenches and back to their homes by Christmas.

In Flanders fields the poppies grow / between the crosses, row on row.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders - to the rolling, heat-miraged downlands of the Somme - for I am dead with them, and they live in me again.

When the days of rejoicing are over,/ When the flags are stowed safely away,/ They will dream of another wild 'War to End Wars'/ And another wild Armistice day.

I love Remembrance Sunday.

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'

What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me. I knew very extensively a lot about World War I.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

The first war zone was declared by Great Britain. She gave us and the world notice of it on the 4th day of November, 1914. The zone became effective Nov. 5, 1914.

My father was in the First World War.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read.

I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.

I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering.

Any great war must be a popular movement.

[Describing World War I:] A short cleansing thunderstorm.

GREAT WAR ENDS CHRISTMAS DAY. FORD TO STOP IT.

Are there not other alternatives than sending our armies to chew barbed wire in Flanders. No doubt several hundred thousand men will be spent to satisfy the military mind in the point.

And when the war is done and youth stone dead I'd toddle safely home and die—in bed.

The real heroes of WWII never came home.