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

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

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.

We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

It is either Christ or chaos.