The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.

Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.

If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.

The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.