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I do not think that war has much to with capitalism and socialism.
An old eagle, a blind eagle, who waits hungry and cold and still;
He seeks nothing, he fears nothing: he stands lone on a lonely hill.
This service of civilization is our true work; the occupation that gives meaning to life. We need peace, inward and outward, because peace leaves us free to attend to it; while war—or, indeed, any violent hatred—interrupts and wrecks and perverts.
The Ordeal of This Generation: The War, the League and the Future (1929)
I am pleased with the election result. Nearly all the educated people I meet are Liberal, but vote Conservative.
The great War was certainly not caused by financial interests. ... All the international financiers that I know are terrified of war and revolution, and anxious for things to work as smoothly as possible.
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