You give back the money that we should spend in military or naval preparations to the people, for their betterment.

It is very wonderful." "We act according to our convictions," Mr.Hebblethwaite pronounced.

"It is our earnest hope that we have risen sufficiently in the scale of civilisation to be able to devote our millions to more moral objects than the massing of armaments." "And you have no fears ?" she persisted earnestly.

"You honestly believe that you are justified in letting the fighting spirit of your people lie dormant ?" "I honestly believe it, Baroness," Mr.Hebblethwaite replied.

"Life is a battle for all of them, but the fighting which we recognise is the fight for moral and commercial supremacy, the lifting of the people by education and strenuous effort to a higher plane of prosperity." "Of course," Anna murmured, "what you say sounds frightfully convincing.
History only will tell us whether you are in the right." "My thirst," Mr.Hebblethwaite observed, glancing towards the little tables set out under the trees, "suggests tea and strawberries." "If some one hadn't offered me tea in a moment or two," Anna declared, "I should have gone back to the Prince, with whom I must confess I was very bored.