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Quotes from Unionist Policy and Other Essays — F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead

1872–1930 England

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We stand for the State and for the unity which, whether in the form of kingdom or empire or class solidarity, the State alone can bring.

Unionist Policy and Other Essays (1913)

Who are we that we should invite Germany to acquiesce in the principles of "Uti Possidetis" at a moment when we possess comparatively everything and they possess comparatively nothing? It is a law as old as the world's history that those who hold valuable possessions coveted by others will hold them so long as, and no longer than, they are able to protect them by the strong arm.

Unionist Policy and Other Essays (1913)

Either we must make up our minds that we will not take part in a European war under any circumstances, or we must have national service; but we cannot make up our minds on the first of these points unless we are prepared to do what our ancestors to their eternal glory refused to do in the days of Napoleon, acquiesce in the hegemony of Europe by one titanic Power.

Unionist Policy and Other Essays (1913)

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