Quote#World
Germany...deliberately appealed to the arbitrament of the sword. Now,…
Quote byBilly Hughes · 1862–1952
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester (26 August 1918), quoted in The Times (27 August 1918), p. 8.
English (original)
Germany...deliberately appealed to the arbitrament of the sword. Now, when she is beginning to learn that the world is not a sheep to be butchered, but that it has both the means and the will to defend itself, she talks about a “League of Nations”. Had she achieved world power, would our fate have differed from that of Russia or Rumania? Would she then have talked about a League of Nations?
— Billy Hughes
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