Harry Patch Quotes

• I felt then, as I feel now, that the politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organizing nothing better than legalized mass murder.

  Harry Patch

  Military, War, Army

  "Land of conflict" by Ian Pindar, Aimee Shalan, John Dugdale, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2008.

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• I met someone from the German side and we both shared the same opinion: we fought, we finished and we were friends... It wasn't worth it.

  Harry Patch

  War, Fighting, Soldier

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• War is organized murder, and nothing else.

  Harry Patch

  War, Libertarian, Veteran

  Harry Patch, Richard van Emden (2008). “The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches, 1898-2009”, p.201, A&C Black

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• War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings.

  Harry Patch

  War, Slaughter, Humans

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• War is nothing but organized murder.

  Harry Patch

  War, Murder, Organized

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