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"It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated."
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"I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind."

"The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers."

"Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown."

"Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts."
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"Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation."

"In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism."

"It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated."

"Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation."

"I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist."

"It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear."

"The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage."

"My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas."

"The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people."
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