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The Mirrors of Downing Street

CHAPTER VIII
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He must act.

He must learn to know that a man cannot give a great idea to the world without giving himself along with it.

The cause must consume the person.
Individual peace must be sacrificed for world's peace.
From the very beginning of the War Lord Robert Cecil perceived that the need of the nation was not for a great political leader, but for a great moral leader.

He told me so with an unforgettable emphasis, well aware that under the public show of our national life the heart of the British people was famishing for such guidance.

He numbered himself among those anxiously scanning the horizon for such a leader.


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