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Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
British Liberal statesman (1862-1933)
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British Liberal statesman (1862-1933)
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Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, better known as Sir Edward Grey, was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician who was the main force behind British foreign policy in the era of the First World War.
“A friend came to see me on one of the evenings of the last week — he thinks it was on Monday, August 3rd. We were standing at a window of my room in the Foreign Office. It was getting dusk, and the lamps were being lit in the space below... My friend recalls that I remarked on this with the words, "The lamps are going out all over Europe: we shall not see them lit again in our life-time."”
“[The United States is like] a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.”
“The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.