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David Lloyd George on Veterans Day

1863–1945 England

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Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

War Memoirs (1942)

The men and women of this country will be burnt into fine building material for the new Britain in the fiery kilns of the war.

The Government can lose the war without you; they cannot win it without you.

You do not declare war on rebels.

The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation—the great peaks of honour we had forgotten—Duty, Patriotism, and—clad in glittering white—the great pinnacle of Sacrifice, pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.

God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice their hearts, to exalt their vision, to strengthen their faith, and if we had stood by when two little nations (Belgium and Servia) were being crushed and broken by the brutal hands of barbarians, our shame would have rung down the everlasting ages.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Lloyd George (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.