Explain to me again the difference between superstitious beliefs or pagan incantations, and scientific ones. Be braver - you cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps.

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

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

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.

When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

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.