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

A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.

One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

It is always too late, or too little, or both. And that is the road to disaster.

Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.

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.