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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.

— 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.

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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