Spanish American War Quotes

• You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.

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  William Randolph Hearst

  War   Media   Spanish American War  

  1898 Telegram to the artist Frederic Remington at the beginning of the Spanish - American War in Cuba, Mar. This may be apocryphal, but it inspired a famous line of dialogue in Orson Welles's film Citizen Kane.

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• All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American high school to have remembered that.

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  David Mandel

  War   School   Thinking  

  Source: deadline.com

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• The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more on the war in Afghanistan this year, adjusting for inflation, than we spent on the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War combined.

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  Nicholas D. Kristof

  War   Years   People  

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• All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history of armed combat such affairs as the Mexican and Spanish-American Wars must be ranked, not as wars at all, but as organized assassinations. In the two World Wars, no American faced a bullet until his adversaries had been worn down by years of fighting others.

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  H. L. Mencken

  Peace   War   Fighting  

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• You may fire when you are ready Gridley.

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  George Dewey

  Fire   Navy   May  

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 3 Oct. 1899

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• U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.

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  Zig Ziglar

  War   Party   Men  

  1967

• I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.

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  Dave Barry

  War   Fans   Rolling  

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.123, Ballantine Books

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• The United States has used force abroad more than 130 times, but has only declared war five times - the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Spanish-American War, and World Wars I and II.

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  John Yoo

  War   Mexican   United States  

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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