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

The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for volunteers, for the reason, felt but inarticulate, that there he found himself indubitably free.

Half a calamity is better than a whole one.

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

To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.

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

Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.