Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.

The home front is always underrated by Generals in the field. And yet that is where the Great War was won and lost. The Russian, Bulgarian, Austrian and German home fronts fell to pieces before their armies collapsed.

Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.

The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.