I Believe It Is Peace For Our

Thrift Is That Habit Of Character That Prompts One To Work For What He Gets, To Earn What Is Paid Him; To Invest A Part Of His Earnings; To Spend Wisely And Well; To Save, But Not Hoard.

Taxation Is Not A Method By Which The Community Corporately Provides Itself With Essential Services, But A Fund To Be Divided Between Different Interests With Political Claims Upon The State.

Armed Conflict Between Nations Is A Nightmare To Me; But If I Were Convinced That Any Nation Had Made Up Its Mind To Dominate The World By Fear Of Its Force, I Should Feel That It Must Be Resisted.

How Horrible, Fantastic, Incredible, It Is That We Should Be Digging Trenches And Trying On Gas-masks Here Because Of A Quarrel In A Faraway Country Between People Of Whom We Know Nothing.

This Is A Sad Day For All Of Us, And To None Is It Sadder Than To Me. Everything That I Have Worked For, Everything That I Have Hoped For, Everything That I Have Believed In During My Public Life, Has Crashed Into Ruins. There Is Only One Thing Left For Me To Do; That Is, To Devote What Strength And Powers I Have To Forwarding The Victory Of The Cause For Which We Have To Sacrifice So Much... I Trust I May Live To See The Day When Hitlerism Has Been Destroyed And A Liberated Europe Has Been Re-established.