"The Council of the Union of Democratic Control re-affirms its unshaken conviction that a lasting settlement cannot be secured by a peace based upon the right of conquest and followed by commercial war, but only by a peace which gives just consideration to the claims of nationality, and which lays the foundation of a real European partnership."

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Source : "Union of Democratic Control". spartacus-educational.com. October 10, 1916.

Norman Angell

#Real Quotes #War Quotes #Giving Quotes

“How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far?”
“I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.”
“The catch word is equilibrium again, informed the field what are conventional weapons or nuclear weapons of different qualities. You cannot make up for a actual or perceived disequilibrium in the conventional field by having more nuclear weapons.”

Source : WGBH-TV Interview, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. November 12, 1987.
“Morals are private. Decency is public.”

Source : Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.84, Bantam
“Today, Mr. Darcy is a vampire.”
“Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's not my duty as an architect to look at it”
“Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man to service, and ennobles great and small alike.”

Source : Percy Dearmer (1915). “Patriotism”

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