“Churchhill instantly replied that the [huge] French army, far from being dangerous, was the strongest guarantee of peace on the continent… Britain must be armed –– “England’s hour of weakness is Europe’s hour of danger.” He urged the Prime Minister to abandon his mission: “the sudden disappearance or undue weakness of that factor of unquestionable French military superiority may open the floodgates of measureless consequence.”
—William Manchester, Churchill Biography, Alone
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