It is either Christ or chaos.

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

The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing etc nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My opinion is that we shall be reincarnated.

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.

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

A body of 500 men chosen at random from amongst the unemployed.