Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.
What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.
[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.