The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay... The nations backed their machines over the precipice not one of them wanted war, certainly not on this scale

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

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.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

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.

The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

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.