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A pretty hypothesis which explains many things. [Fr., Jolie hypothese elle explique tant de choses.] - quoted by, in a speech in Parliament as "a saying of a witty Frenchman" [Explanation] If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power. - Statement, to House of Commons, Declaration of War with Germany, Aug. 4, 1914 [War]
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