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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance.

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

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the press of reality becomes irresistible. By necessity, it adopts some of the policies it had once denounced. And a new national consensus is born.

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

There is nothing so marginal as a party that has been in power for 18 years and slides into opposition. You influence nothing.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.