G W Hunt quotes
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“We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.”
-- G W HuntSource : 1878 Music-hall song, inspired by Disraeli's speech of 9 Nov1876 threatening Russia with war if it sent volunteers into Serbia and Montenegro. This is the origin of 'jingoism'.
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Source : A. J. Muste's statement of 1941, as quoted in Howard Zinn "A People's History" (p. 416), 1980, and later quoted in Howard Zinn "The Twentieth Century: A People's History" (p. 159), May 9, 1984.
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation