Great men sometimes lose the reins and lose their heads. This time, let us hope that they will retain them and that when victory is assured they will sit down and reckon what the future is going to be for their countries as well as for other lands.

Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.

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.

He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.

A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.

You cannot trust the interests of any class entirely to another class; and you cannot trust the interests of any sex to another sex.

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.