Spanish American War Quotes

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

  William Randolph Hearst

  War, Media, Remington

  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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• You may fire when you are ready Gridley.

  George Dewey

  Fire, Navy, May

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 3 Oct. 1899

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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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Paz, guerra, lucha

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• Estados Unidos ha utilizado la fuerza en el extranjero más de 130 veces, pero sólo ha declarado la guerra en cinco ocasiones: la Guerra de 1812, la Guerra México-Estados Unidos, la Guerra Hispano-Estadounidense y las Guerras Mundiales I y II.

  John Yoo

  Guerra, México, Estados Unidos

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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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.

  David Mandel

  War, School, Thinking

  Fuente: deadline.com

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

  Dave Barry

  War, Fans, Rolling

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

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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.

  Zig Ziglar

  War, Party, Men

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• La comunidad de inteligencia es tan vasta que hay más personas con autorización de alto secreto que las que viven en Washington. Estados Unidos gastará más en la guerra de Afganistán este año, ajustado a la inflación, que lo que gastamos en la Guerra de la Independencia, la Guerra de 1812, la Guerra entre México y Estados Unidos, la Guerra de Secesión y la Guerra entre España y Estados Unidos juntas.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Guerra, Años, Gente

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