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Of course I cannot work as I did. Still, there has never been a day, I suppose, when I have failed to give thought to the work for peace and for Hellenism. The one is a matter of life and death for all of us; the other of maintaining amid all the dust of modern industrial life our love and appreciation of eternal values.

— Gilbert Murray

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I do not think that war has much to with capitalism and socialism.

The Commonwealth is the Sermon on the Mount reduced to political terms.

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.

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