If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first … - H. H. Asquith

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H. H. Asquith

If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation. . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

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We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

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We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.

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The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.

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Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.

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When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.

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