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

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

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

I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.

The ideal Government minister may well be someone who has no itch to run other people's lives.

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

I had furthermore spoken on the assumption that Russia would mobilize, whereas the assumption of the German Government had hitherto been, officially, that Serbia would receive no support; and what I had said must influence the German Government to take the matter seriously.