Quote#God & Faith
I believe that force never has and never will bring permanent peace…
Quote byGeorge Lansbury · 1859–1940
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech to the Labour Party Conference of 1935, quoted in Rhiannon Vickers, The Labour Party and the World, Volume 1: The Evolution of Labour's Foreign Policy, 1900–51 (2003), p. 115.
English (original)
I believe that force never has and never will bring permanent peace and goodwill in the world ... God intends us to live peacefully and quietly with one another. If some people do not allow us to do so, I am ready to stand as the early Christians did, and say, this is our faith, this is where we stand, and, if necessary, this is where we will die.
— George Lansbury
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