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Nya citat 2005-07-26
America is today the leader of a world-wide anti-revolutionary movement in the defense of vested interests. She now stands for what Rome stood for. Rome consistently supported the rich against the poor in all foreign communities that fell under her sway; and, since the poor, so far, have always and everywhere been far more numerous than the rich, Rome's policy made for inequality, for injustice, and for the least happiness of the greatest number.
Arnold Toynbee, 1961
1) Other nations are not allowed to mess around with the internal affairs of nations in this hemisphere. 2) But we are. 3) Ha ha ha.
Dave Barry, explaining what the Monroe Doctrine is
What kind of war do civilians suppose we fought, anyway? ... We shot prisoners in cold blood, wiped out hospitals, strafed lifeboats, killed or mistreated enemy civilians, finished off the enemy wounded, tossed the dying into a hole with the dead, and in the Pacific boiled the flesh off enemy skulls to make table ornaments for sweethearts, or carved their bones into letter openers.
Edgar L. Jones, former American war correspondent in the Pacific, 1946
There was no corner of the known world where some interest was not alleged to be in danger or under actual attack. If the interests were not Roman, they were those of Rome's allies; and if Rome had no allies, the allies would be invented. When it was utterly impossible to contrive such an interest - why, then it was the national honor that had been insulted. The fight was always invested with an aura of legality. Rome was always being attacked by evil-minded neighbors...
Joseph Schumpeter, 1919, on the Roman Empire
His Majesty's Government have made it clear that it is no part of their policy to bomb nonmilitary objectives, no matter what the policy of the German Government may be.
British Foreign Office, 1939
It was rather a sloppy job, and some of the boys got sick. But that is something you have to learn. The enemy is out to kill you and you are out to kill the enemy. You can't be sporting in a war.
U.S. Major from the 5th Bomber Command, on butchery after the battle of the Bismarck Sea in March 1943, when U.S. and Australian aircraft systematically searched the seas for Japanese survivors and strafed every raft and lifeboat they found
When the methods ... take the form of ruthless bombing of unfortified localities with the resultant slaughter of civilian populations, and in particular of women and children, public opinion in the United States regards such methods as barbarous ... Such acts are in violation of the most elementary principles of those standards of humane conduct which have been developed as an essential part of modern civilization.
U.S. Department of State on June 3 1938, reacting against German and Japanese terror bombings in Spain and China
...bomb, burn and ruthlessly destroy...
The British minister of information in August 1943, about what the Allies intended to do with Germany and Japan
100,000,000 potential enemies are dangerous.
President Franklin D Roosevelt about the Japanese propaganda about of Pan-Asian solidarity, March 1945
How were American Indians treated? What about African Negroes?
Two rhetorical questions used in Japanese propaganda in Asia throughout the war against the United States
The peoples of Korea and China have indeed been the objectives of bacteriological weapons. These have been employed by units of the U.S.A. armed forces, using a great variety of different methods for the purpose.
An International Scientific committee composed of scientists from Sweden, France, Great Britain, Italy, Brazil and the Soviet Union, in August 1952
When Tokyo was incinerated, there was scarcely a murmur of protest on the home front.
John W Dower, historian
...scorched and boiled and baked to death...
Major General Curtis LeMay on the fate of the 100,000 people killed in the fire bombings of Tokyo, March 9-10, 1945
...the extermination of the Japanese in toto.
Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the War Manpower Commission, to a public audience in April 1945, about what to to after the war was won. He confirmed that he meant the Japanese people as a whole, "for I know the Japanese people."
You have taught the world that you are infinitely superior to this inhuman foe against whom you were pitted ... Your enemy is a curious race - a cross between the human being and the ape. And like the ape, when he is cornered he knows how to die. But he is inferior to you, and you know it, and that knowledge will help you to victory.
General Blarney, in a speech to his Australian troops, January 1943
...one of the most ruthless and barbaric killings of non-combatants in all history.
Brigadier General Bonner Fellers on the U.S. air raids against Japan
Kill Japs, kill Japs, kill more Japs.
Slogan used in the U.S. South Pacific Force during WWII
[The U.S. should continue bombing Japan] until we have destroyed about half the Japanese civilian population.
Elliott Roosevelt, the son of president F D Roosevelt, in 1945
You heard me, Colonel. I want no prisoners. Shoot them all.
U.S. Major General at Bougainville, ordering the execution of wounded Japanese attempting to surrender
Enemy plans to wipe Japan and the Japanese people off the face of the earth are no propaganda manifestations.
Major Japanese newspaper, after the battle of Iwo Jima
...only a hundred or two were turned in. They had an accident with the rest. It doesn't encourage the rest to surrender when they hear of their buddies being marched out on the flying field and machine guns turned loose upon them.
Charles Lindbergh, who lived and flew as a civilian observer with U.S. forces based in New Guinea in mid-1944
It was freely admitted that some of our soldiers tortured Jap prisoners and were as cruel and barbaric at times as the Japs themselves. Our men think nothing of shooting a Japanese prisoner or a soldier attempting to surrender. They treat the Japs with less respect than they would give to an animal, and these acts are condoned by almost everyone.
Charles Lindbergh, who lived and flew as a civilian observer with U.S. forces based in New Guinea in mid-1944
...the process, so necessary and desirable, of laying the cities and other munitions centers of Japan in ashes, for in ashes they must surely lie before peace comes back to the world.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, May 1943
You know tht we have to exterminate these vermin if we and our families are to live ... We must go on to the end if civilization is to survive. We must exterminate the Japanese.
General Blarney, in a speech to his Australian troops, January 1943
Fighting Japs is not like fighting normal human beings ... The Jap is a little barbarian. ... We are not dealing with humans as we know them. We are dealing with something primitive. Our troops have the right view of the Japs. They regard them as vermin.
General Blamey
Kill the Jap bastards! Take no prisoners!
U.S. Marine battle cry on Tarawa
Probably in all our history, no foe has been so detested as were the Japanese.
Allan Nevins, American historian
...the almost total elimination of the Japanese as a race ... [because this] was a question of which race was to iurvive, and white civilization was at stake.
The Navy representative to the first interdepartmental U.S. government committee to study how Japan should be treated after the war, May 1943
[Develop contingency plans for] general incendiary attacks to burn up the wood and paper structures of the densely populated Japanese cities.
General George G. Marshall, in an order to his aides shortly before Pearl Harbor
...the Japs are asking for an invasion, and they are going to get it. Japan will eventually be a nation without cities — a nomadic people.
Vice Admiral Arthur Radford
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