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Quotes:
"It is the habit of the boa-constrictor to besmear the body of its victim with a foul slime before he devours it; and there are many people in England, and perhaps elsewhere, who seem to be unable to contemplate military operations for clear political objects, unless they can cajole themselves into the belief that the enemy is utterly and hopelessly vile."
-future Prime
Minister, Winston Churchill
"I think that England sinned when she got herself
into a war in South Africa which she could have avoided,
just as we have sinned in getting into a similar war in
the Philippines."
-Mark Twain
"It is a war not against men, but against
women and children."
-future Prime
Minister, Lloyd George
"... This violation of every international law
is really very characteristic of the nation which always plays the role
of chosen judge over the customs and behaviour of all
other nations."
-General Jan Smuts
"When is a war not a war? When it is waged in
South Africa by methods of barbarism."
-future Prime
Minister, Henry Campbell-Bannerman
"Disease was on the increase and the sight of
the people made the impression of utter misery. Illness
and death had left their marks on the faces of the
inhabitants. Many that I had left hale and hearty, of
good appearance and physically fit, had undergone such a
change that I could hardly recognize them."
-humanitarian, Emily Hobhouse
"We move from valley to valley, lifting cattle
and sheep, burning and looting, and turning out women
and children to weep in despair beside the ruin of their
once beautiful homesteads."
-quoted by Lloyd
George from a letter by a British officer
"Every one of these children who died as a result
of the halving of their rations, thereby exerting
pressure onto their family still on the battle-field,
was purposefully murdered. The system of half rations
stands exposed and stark and unshamefully as a
cold-blooded deed of state policy employed with the
purpose of ensuring the surrender of people whom we were
not able to defeat on the battlefield."
-British journalist, WT Stead
"By Sir H. Kitchener's orders, the Tomb has been profaned and razed to the ground. The corpse of the Mahdi was dug up. The head was separated from the body, and, to quote the official explanation, 'preserved for future disposal'...."
-future Prime
Minister, Winston Churchill
"The proper strategy consists in inflicting as
telling blows as possible on the enemy's army, and then
causing the inhabitants so much suffering that they must
long for peace, and force the government to demand it.
The people must be left with nothing but their eyes to
weep with over the war."
-U.S. Army
General Philip Sheridan, advice to Otto Von Bismark,
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