"Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach."

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Source : "Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Speech at the London Interparliamentary Conference". The Advocate of Peace, Volume 68, No. 9, archive.org. September 1906.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

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“If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.”

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