Kelly Miller Quotes
For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.
Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.
All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.
No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing.
Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race to race and from age to age, and gains in brilliancy as it goes.
If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.
The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists.
Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy.
Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.
In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.
With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.
In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum.
The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.
To meet the shortage of supplies from America, due to lack of shipping, the representatives of the different supply departments were constantly in search of available material and supplies in Europe.
