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"No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors."
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"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."
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"The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War."

"It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching."

"But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war."

"Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany."

"It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq."

"Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time."

"Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves."

"But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich."

"There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills."
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