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War Quotes by Arthur Henderson
- It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that…
- Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end…
- Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear…
- He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst…
- In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the…
- In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in…
- In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is…
- In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.
- The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as…
- The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human…
- We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the…
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