He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit

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.

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.