The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either.

The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached this stage and reviews the pleasure of life will be grateful and glad that he has been an angler, for he will look back on days radiant with happiness, peaks of enjoyment that are no less bright because they are lit in memory by the light of a setting sun.

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.

I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.

The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.

The internal peace of every country depends upon the knowledge that force is available to uphold law.