John Hay Quote

It has been a splendid little war, begun with the highest motives, carried on with magnificent intelligence and spirit, favoured by that fortune which loves the brave.

On the Spanish-American War of 1898

letter to Theodore Roosevelt, 27 July 1898


It has been a splendid little war, begun with the highest motives, carried on with magnificent intelligence and spirit, favoured by that fortune...

It has been a splendid little war, begun with the highest motives, carried on with magnificent intelligence and spirit, favoured by that fortune...

It has been a splendid little war, begun with the highest motives, carried on with magnificent intelligence and spirit, favoured by that fortune...

It has been a splendid little war, begun with the highest motives, carried on with magnificent intelligence and spirit, favoured by that fortune...