“This war, like the next war, is a war to end war.”

Statement, sometimes dated to have been made in 1916, as quoted in Reading, Writing and Remembering : A Literary Record (1932) by Edward Verrall Lucas, p. 296
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Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1863–1945

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