Quote#Freedom
Is Germany prepared not only to evacuate Belgium, not only to make…
Quote byH. H. Asquith · 1852–1928
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Later life, Speech in the House of Commons (26 July 1917), quoted in The Times (27 July 1917), p. 10.
English (original)
Is Germany prepared not only to evacuate Belgium, not only to make full reparation for the colossal mischief and damage which have accompanied her devastating occupation of the country, and her practical enslavement, so far as she can carry it out, of large portions of the population...but to restore to Belgium not the pretence of liberty, but complete and unfettered and absolute independence?
— H. H. Asquith
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