We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

God is on the side of the big battalions.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.