"He had rather spend £100,000 on Embassies to keep or procure peace with dishonour, than £100,000 on an army that would have forced peace with honour."
— Peace

January 1, 1970

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Sir Anthony Weldon, in The Court and Character of King James (1650), p. 185; used by Benjamin Disraeli on his return from the Berlin Congress on the Eastern Question (July 1878).