If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.

Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi.

A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.

...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.