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

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.

Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.

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.

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

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.