 | James Richard Joy - Biography - 1902 - 294 pages
...at this crisis was paraphrased in the London music-halls in the famous couplet: " We don't want to fight, but, by Jingo, if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money, too," a song which gave the name of "Jingo" to the war policy of the Conservatives. An English fleet was... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1902 - 732 pages
...defied : shall not our enemies lick the dust ? Beware how you tread on the tail of the British lion ! We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too. One Englishman can always beat six Frenchmen. We'll tell the envious foreign stock onr empire is the... | |
 | Alfons Marie Napoleon Prayon-van Zuylen - Ireland - 1902 - 534 pages
...in Engeland met geestdrift werd gezongen : We don't want to fight, Bul, by Jingo, if we do, VVe've got the ships, we've got the men, We've got the money too ! Protestanten begonnen zich af te vragen of hunne vaderen geene dwaasheid hadden begaan, toen zij... | |
 | Harmon Bay Niver - Great Britain - 1904 - 438 pages
...called it "jingo policy," taking the name from a comic song written in ridicule : "We don't want to fight, but by jingo, if we do, we've got the ships, we've got the men, and we've got the money, too." It was during this period that the queen formally took the title of... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1904 - 378 pages
...conceive it as the source of that war-song produced in these recent days of excitement : We don't want to fight, but by jingo, if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, and we've got the money too. We may also partly judge its standard of life, and the needs of its nature,... | |
 | W.C. Brann - 1905 - 470 pages
...Turco-Russian unpleasantness. One couplet runs—or rather wobbles along —in this wise: "We don't want to fight, but by Jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too." Our own blessed ultra-conservative—or Anglomaniacs —borrowed the term from their British cousins,... | |
 | Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London - Medicine - 1905 - 1002 pages
...which a good many of us used to sing some years ago about the army and the navy : " We don't want to fight, but, by Jingo, if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, We've got the money, too." I confess I feel this evening as if I could sing the same song with somewhat different words : " We... | |
 | John George Godard - Great Britain - 1905 - 360 pages
...defied ; shall not our enemies lick the dust ? Beware how you tread on the tail of the British lion ! We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too. One Englishman can always beat three (or is it six ?) Frenchmen. We'll tell the envious foreign stock... | |
 | Hugh Montgomery, Philip George Cambray - Great Britain - 1906 - 428 pages
...owes its origin to a song at that time popular, expressing the " jingo " spirit : "We don't want to fight, but, by jingo, if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too." Joint Committee. (See COMMITTEES.) Judge Advocate General, Is the legal adviser of the War Office on... | |
 | Victor Bérard - Free trade and protection - 1906 - 324 pages
...invincible might. Then appeared the hymn of Saint Jingo : — We don't want to fight, but, by Jingo,3 if we do We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too. The actual outcome of these brave words is not difficult to divine. Similar stupidities in honour of... | |
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We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too. 
