Chemical Weapons in World War I

Famous quotes containing the words war i, chemical, weapons, world and/or war:

    “... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?”
    —Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)

    “We do not want actions, but men; not a chemical drop of water, but rain; the spirit that sheds and showers actions, countless, endless actions.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.”
    —Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

    “The world only goes round by misunderstanding.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

    “God grant we may not have a European war thrust upon us, and for such a stupid reason too, no I don’t mean stupid, but to have to go to war on account of tiresome Servia beggars belief.”
    —Mary (1867–1953)