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  • Just foraword'neutrality'aword which inwartimehas so often been disregardedjust for a scrap of paper Great Britain isgoing to make war on a kindred nation who desires nothing better than to be friends with her.

    -Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
      On Britain's reaction to the German invasion of neutral Belgium, 4  Aug. Quoted in British Documents on the Origins of the War1898^1914 (1926), vol.11.

  • (All the coaches shall be scrap and rust and all the men and women laughing in the diners and sleepers shall pass to ashes.) I ask a man in the smoker where he isgoing and he answers: 'Omaha'.

    - Carl Sandburg
      Chicago Poems,'Limited'.

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