As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.

Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war.

It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.

Artillery conquers and infantry occupies.

The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and concrete while a quixotically valiant ally was being exterminated!

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which....pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.