“I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.”
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Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.
Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.
Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.
I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.
