"The lamps are going out all over Europe;……" — Edward Grey
"The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."
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12 Quotes by Edward Grey
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Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense…
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From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from…
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I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the…
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I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone,…
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I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it…
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In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who had been supporting the Austrian…
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Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern…
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That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany…
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The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no…
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After a big war a nation doesn't want another for a generation or more.
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The moral is obvious: it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.
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