We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man

It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.