"We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war."
-Arthur Henderson
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"Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.“
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"The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity."
-Arthur Henderson
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"The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization."
-Arthur Henderson
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"Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever."
-Arthur Henderson
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"It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world."
-Arthur Henderson
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"In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war."
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