We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.

I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their courage and enterprise, and a people who will not stand up to the necessity of air service planned on a world scale, and taking over thousands of aeroplanes and thousands of men from the onset of peace, has no business to pretend anything more than a second rate position in the world. We cannot be both Imperial and mean.