Edward Dunlop famous quotes

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The moral is obvious it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.
-- Edward Dunlop

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The greatest inheritance that a man hath is the liberty of his person, for all others are accessory to it.
-- Edward Dunlop

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Every country needs its heroes, and we must follow them.
-- Edward Dunlop

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I have a conviction that it's only when you are put at full stretch that you can realise your full potential.
-- Edward Dunlop

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Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly.
-- Edward Dunlop

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God knows the angel's wings must have been over us in view of the terrible mortality in all other camps up an down this line which seemed to be being built in bones.
-- Edward Dunlop

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All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.
This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.
Money has no moral opinions.
The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness
We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.
It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.

Edward Dunlop famous quotes

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