An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.

In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade.... The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance.

An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.