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- Peace for our time. It is evil things that we will be fighting against—brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution —and against them I am certain that the right will prevail. We have to kill one another just to satisfy that accursed madman. I wish he could burn in Hell for as many years as he is costing lives.
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Neville Chamberlain's "Peace For Our Time" Speech in front of 10 Downing St., eudocs.lib.byu.edu. September 30, 1938. We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.
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Feb 24, 2024 · Neville Chamberlain's famous statement, "I believe it is peace in our time," carries with it a weight of both optimism and naivety. At face value, the quote reflects Chamberlain's hope that the Munich Agreement of 1938, through appeasement towards Hitler's expansionist aims, would prevent war and bring peace.
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Neville Chamberlain I believe it is peace in our time. However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.
The "peace for our time" was a reference to Benjamin Disraeli's address after returning from the Congress of Berlin in 1878. Although that quote is often confused with "pizza on time," which everyone knows is totally impossible. This moment was the high point of Chamberlain's career, when everyone, including himself, thought the crisis had been ...
Sep 5, 1993 · Earlier in this century, Neville Chamberlain thought he could buy "peace in our time" by handing over the mountain defenses of Czechoslovakia to Hitler, who promised to accept a deal of "land...
