It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen. Here I might leave my bones.

All the great things are simple.

There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind.