It is well that war is so terrible otherwise we should grow too fond of it.
Who first used the phrase the war to end all wars. Commonly cited as the war to end all wars or a similar variant the phrase was quickly adopted as a slogan to explain British and later American. Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War II Gen. You may miss Pax Americana Now as we approach August 2014 100 years from the beginning of the war to end all wars we should recall that the British belief was that it would all be over by the first Christmas.
After it was over World War I was called the war to end all wars because it was so destructive that the nations of the world wanted to prevent such slaughter from ever happening again. A Poem Convictions Based on Recollections of the Revolts of 1848 1902 I have just seen it quoted again. Still the context was one of economic mobilization and political authority and it was within this framework that the expression acquired currency after the war.
American Revolutionary War captain Nathan Hale. In a series of newspaper columns Wells coined the phrase The war to end all wars This phrase would be picked up on by American President Woodrow Wilson and used as a rallying cry as he led America into the battle believing that a victory in that day would prevent future military conflict. Yes it appears solemnly in print even now at the end of the greatest war in history.
Pax Britannia ended in 1914 with the War to End All Wars at least until the next one and Europe with trenches and artillery was laid waste. During World War I it alone used the phrase total war as part of the Jacobin and revolutionary rhetoric employed by the Georges Clemenceau government in 1917-18. Being separated for the moment from my book of quotations I cannot say who was the Roman thinker who first gave this brilliant paradox to.
The phrase war to end all wars was first used by the British author H. War to End All Wars is the thirteenth studio album by guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen released on 7 November 2000 through Pony Canyon Japan Spitfire Records United States and DreamCatcher Records Europe. Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi and US. Are just some of the many renowned leaders who have had a lot to say about war. With Patrick Allen Fred North.