| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 8256 |
| QUOTATION: | A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Aristide Briand (18621932), French prime minister. speech, Sept. 10, 1926, in Geneva.
Welcoming Germany into the League of Nations. |
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