Quotes by Edward Grey

After a big war a nation doesn't want another for a generation or more.

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The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again...

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The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and...

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The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we...

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That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the...

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Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions...

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In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who...

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If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of...

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I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me;...

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The moral is obvious: it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.

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