There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

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

Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.

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.

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

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

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.