 | 1876 - 1102 էջ
...destructive wars. "The expense of war," said Mr. Gladstone, " is the moral check which it has pleased the Almighty to impose upon the ambition and the lust of conquest that are inherent in so many nation?. There is pomp and circumstance, there is glory and excitement about war, which, notwithstanding... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1855 - 1078 էջ
...the moral reasons. (' Hear, hear ! ') The expenses of a war are the moral check which it has pleased the Almighty to impose upon the ambition and the lust...of conquest that are inherent in so many nations. (' Hear ! ") There is pomp and circumstance, there is glory and excitement, about war which, notwith... | |
 | Leone Levi - 1888 - 104 էջ
...the same ! " The expenses of a war," said Mr. Gladstone, " are the moral check which it has pleased the Almighty to impose upon the ambition and the lust...miseries it entails, invests it with charms in the eye of the community, and tends to blind men to those evils to a fearful and dangerous degree. The... | |
 | Charles Francis Bastable - 1892 - 704 էջ
...can be no doubt that the immediate 1 ' The expenses of a war are the moral check which it has pleased the Almighty to impose upon the ambition and the lust...There is pomp and circumstance, there is glory and increase of taxation will to some extent damp the ardour of a people for war, which, however, is sometimes... | |
 | George Richardson Porter, Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1912 - 912 էջ
...possible an honourable peace. The expenses of a war, he said, " are the moral check which it has pleased the Almighty to impose upon the ambition and the lust...of conquest that are inherent in so many nations." The Aberdeen Administration fell, and Sir George Cornewall Lewis succeeded Mr. Gladstone as Chancellor... | |
 | William Ramage Lawson - 1912 - 468 էջ
...in his Budget speech of 1854, " are the moral check which it has pleased the Almighty to impose on the ambition and the lust of conquest that are inherent in so many nations." Though when he spoke thus (March 1854) a rupture with Russia had actually occurred, and the Government... | |
 | Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - 1913 - 660 էջ
...sternly opposed. " The expenses of a war," he characteristically said, "are a check which it has pleased the Almighty to impose upon the ambition and the lust...of conquest that are inherent in so many nations. . . . The necessity of meeting from year to year the expenditure which war entails is a salutary and... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1915 - 350 էջ
...to pay the Crimean War bill : — " The expenses of a war are the moral check which it has pleased the Almighty to impose upon the ambition and the lust...notwithstanding the miseries it entails, invests it with charm$ in the eyes of the community, and tends to blind men to those evils to a fearful and dangerous... | |
 | 1876 - 1102 էջ
...destructive wars. "The expense of war," said Mr. Gladstone, " is the moral check which it has pleased the Almighty to impose upon the ambition and the lust...in so many nations. There is pomp and circumstance, liiere is glory and excitement about war, which, notwithstanding the miseries it entails, invest it... | |
 | David Bebbington - 1993 - 292 էջ
...financed by loans. "The expenses of a war," he told the Commons, "are the moral check which it has pleased the Almighty to impose upon the ambition and the lust...of conquest that are inherent in so many nations." Nor, he held, should the poor surfer unduly. He tried at first to avoid entirely increases in the tariff... | |
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The expenses of a war are the moral check which it has pleased the Almighty to impose upon the ambition and the lust of conquest that are inherent in so many nations. 
