Person

Edward Grey

(1415-1457)

(1415-1457)

Notable quotes

“A friend came to see me on one of the evenings of the last week — he thinks it was on Monday, August 3rd. We were standing at a window of my room in the Foreign Office. It was getting dusk, and the lamps were being lit in the space below... My friend recalls that I remarked on this with the words, "The lamps are going out all over Europe: we shall not see them lit again in our life-time."”
— Vol. 2, ch. 18, p. 20 books.google
“[The United States is like] a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.”
— Remembered by Winston Churchill in 1941 as a remark made by Edward Grey 'more than thirty years ago' .
“The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.”
— Quoted by Admiral 'Jacky' Fisher in Memories p.18 (1919)

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