"Go to war" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... needn't tell you, will not go to war to wrest your children from the royal family, but will afford you personally ...
— Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess • Henry W. Fischer
... same as you want, i.e. to be free citizens of our own state. Our own state—that does not mean to have a few officials or one more university. To have a state of our own—that means to be able to decide freely if our soldiers shall go to war again, and if they do, to see that they go only for the interests of their own nation, and not for the interests of their enemies. An independent state—that means for us no longer to die by order of foreigners, and no longer to ...
— Independent Bohemia • Vladimir Nosek
... Russia might go to war exposing in the field her weakness already spread out on paper by Russian authorities, with copies in Vienna and Berlin; but that England or Great Britain could or would fight at this time was an impossibility; ...
— The Audacious War • Clarence W. Barron
... Hanover; Mr. Fox unblushingly declaring, that "Hanover ought to be as dear to us as Hampshire;" although the act of settlement expressly declares it to be a breach of the compact between the king and the people, to go to war on account of any of the king's foreign possessions. Their NINTH measure was, to draw up a bill, which they left in their office, making it, in Ireland, transportation for any person or persons to be seen out of their houses, in ...
— Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. Volume 2 • Henry Hunt
... command the support of a large number of members. Such support could only come from your side. I think the Conservative party are gone mad. Their speeches are calculated to provoke war. As it is so uncertain whether we shall go to war or to a Conference, I think I had better wait a little, as, though the motion should, I think, be made in any case, the terms of it would vary very much according to either alternative.... I know of no one except Forsyth whom I could ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn
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