Quote#Nature
We left our element, the sea, to make ourselves into a conscript…
Quote byJohn Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher · 1841–1920
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Memories (1919), p. 53..
English (original)
We left our element, the sea, to make ourselves into a conscript nation fighting on the Continent with four million soldiers out of a population of forty millions.
— John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
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