But he is insistent that we can justify our fiery passion in War only by an equal passion in the higher cause of Peace--no, not an equal passion, a far greater passion.
We lost at Versailles our greatest opportunity for that divine justification.

We showed no fervour for peace.

There was no passion in us; nothing but scepticism, incredulity, and the base appetite for revenge.

We might have led the world into a new epoch if at that moment we had laid down our sword, taken up our cross, and followed the Prince of Peace.

But we were cold, cold.