Famous quotes containing the words western, front, world and/or war:
“It is the place where all the aspirations of the Western World meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“You let me throw the bricks through the front window. You go in at the back and take the swag.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)