To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped.

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

I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of intense loneliness in life, and a contempt, not for other men, but for all they do.

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

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.