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The most awful responsibility is resting upon the Government in deciding what to advise the House of Commons to do.

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Speech in the British House of Commons (1914)

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The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.

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