"The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office." ― George Bernard Shaw Topic(s): War Tags: british, soldier, stand More From George Bernard Shaw "If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience." "Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." "We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience." More In War "Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality."― James A. Garfield "It’s a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war."― George McGovern "War is a blessing compared with national degradation."― Andrew Jackson