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.

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

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

At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.

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.