We must end war before war ends us.

But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. And those times I look around at my fellow men and I am reminded of some likeness of the beast-people, and I feel as though the animal is surging up in them. And I know they are neither wholly animal nor holy man, but an unstable combination of both.

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.