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When Sir Edward Grey failed to secure peace between Germany and Russia, he worked deliberately to involve us in the war, using Belgium as his chief excuse.

— Ramsay MacDonald

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Felt the virtues of the Victorian times so condemned by Mr Strachey. The simple honesties can always be made a butt by the impish unrealiabilites.

In youth one believes in democracy, later on, one has to accept it.

If we yield now to the TUC we shall never be able to call our bodies or souls or intelligences our own.

Mr. Lloyd George will not resign on anything anti-German. He is anti-German, and the trust which the reasonable Peace people place in him is altogether misplaced.

State Charity is not socialism but may become the greatest menace the Socialist Movement [has been] threatened with.

Letter (1909)

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