If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two
sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international
obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting
man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are
fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are
not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the
arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.
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When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
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A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
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In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
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Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists,
nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
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The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
