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| Tribuni Angusticlavii | what am i doing? im stuck at home by myself, my family are all down at the beach, enjoying the weather. i got out of hospital 3 days ago and have been having a veg session, just finished watching "ultimate force" and im about to start on the original italian job oh and our local supermarket has hot cross buns in store, its ridiculous
__________________ 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. Author: Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith Source: Statement, to House of Commons, Declaration of War with Germany, Aug. 4, 1914 |
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