It was to be fought out to the end, whatever it cost." "And you were once a pacifist!" "Pacifist!" the man repeated passionately.

"Every human being with common sense was a pacifist when the war started." "But the war was forced upon us," Julian reminded him.

"You can't deny that." "No one wishes to, sir.

It was forced upon us all right, but who made it necessary?
Why, our rotten government for the last twenty years! Our politicians, Mr.Julian, that are prating now of peace before their job's done! Do you think that if we'd paid our insurance like men and been prepared, this war would ever have come?
Not it! We asked for trouble, and we got it in the neck.

If we make peace now, we'll be a German colony in twenty years, thanks to Mr.Stenson and you and the rest of them.