The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.

The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.