I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor. ... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger.

Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.

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This is a man who has carried the moral weight of the world for 26 years... turning himself into the only moral reference for humanity in recent years of wars …

We must not take up arms for vain prospects of grandeur, nor the allurements of conquest.

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.