Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.

The one who cannot see that on Earth a big endeavor is taking place, an important plan, on which realization we are allowed to collaborate as faithful servants, certainly has to be blind.

A good party man puts his party above himself and his country above his party.

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.

Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.