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

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

Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.

When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.

The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.

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.

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