Quote#War
I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army and disarm…
Quote byGeorge Lansbury · 1859–1940
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Answer to a Star reporter who put the question to Lansbury, “What would you do if you were Dictator?” (23 October 1933), during the Fulham East by-election, quoted in Edgar Lansbury, George Lansbury, My Father (1934), p. 175 and Robert Rhodes James, Memoirs of a Conservative: J. C. C. Davidson's Mem.
English (original)
I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army and disarm the Air Force. I would abolish the whole dreadful equipment of war and say to the world: “Do your worst”.
— George Lansbury
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