Quote#Courage
I should fear that the new Poland would suffer from the diseases…
Quote byArthur Balfour · 1848–1930
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: First Lord of the Admiralty, Memorandum, 'The Peace Settlement in Europe' (November 1916), quoted in Blanche E. C. Dugdale, Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour, K.G., O.M., F.R.S., Etc. 1906–1930 (London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1936), p. 325.
English (original)
I should fear that the new Poland would suffer from the diseases through which the old Poland perished; that it would be a theatre of perpetual intrigues between Germany and Russia; and that its existence, so far from promoting the cause of European peace, would be a perpetual occasion of European strife.
— Arthur Balfour
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