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

Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.

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

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the tribes our creed could be only like the desert grass – a beautiful swift seeming of spring; which, after a day’s heat, fell dusty.

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

Half a calamity is better than a whole one.