Quotes from James Ramsay MacDonald, c.1929

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament. People don't fight for the reasons they give for it after they have got into the war; they fight because something has happened; because a train of circumstances has happened that puts their nerves on edge which makes them unhappy in their suspicions; which makes them feel unsafe and insecure until by a continuation of that mentality they come to the conclusion.