Immortal Great War Quote 33

Immortal Great War Quote 33

Quote mark This is a war to end all wars. Quote mark

American President Woodrow Wilson

(Wilson made the strophe famous, but he was not the first one who used it - the British novelist H.G. Wells invented it)

Quote mark Only the dead have seen the end of war. Quote mark

George Santayana, Spanish-American philosopher, in a counter to Wilson's words

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