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Quotes from Men in Battle — Alvah Bessie

1904–1985 United States

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Sunny Spain, land of mañana, where nothing was done today that could be put off till tomorrow!

Men in Battle (1939)

You cannot really believe in the existence of a foreign country until you see it.

Men in Battle (1939)

Those Americans who went to Spain to fight Franco and stave off World War II have never minded being called "premature anti-fascists." They were proud of the label.

Men in Battle (1939)

Whenever the mind has led the body to an important decision, events have a way of assuming, momentarily, a half-symbolic nature. The mind plays that trick on you, and everything you see seems to partake of the quality of the decision you have made.

Men in Battle (1939)

"In the end," Merkel said, "you can't fool the workers. Takes 'em maybe a long time to wake up with the newspapers saying lies all the time, but you can't fool 'em."

Men in Battle (1939)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alvah Bessie (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.