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I never had any qualm of conscience as to my motives and intentions…

Quote byEdward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon · 1862–1933

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Louise Creighton (April 1918), quoted in G. M. Trevelyan, Grey of Fallodon; Being the Life of Sir Edward Grey afterwards Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1937), p. 250.

English (original)

I never had any qualm of conscience as to my motives and intentions before the war. I used to torture myself by questioning whether by more foresight or wisdom I could have prevented the war, but I have come to think that no human individual could have prevented it. Nothing could have prevented it except a change of the Prussian nature.

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

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